The active user profile is backed as part of the registry on NT
(HKEY_CURRENT_USER hive) and must
be restored as part of the registry.

This also true of the profiles of any other logged user (multiple
non-interactive accounts may be logged on at
the same time via services).

All logged on user profiles are loaded into the HKEY_USERS hive, and as
stated above, the currently logged
on user (the one which is running the tsm client process) is loaded into
HKEY_CURRENT_USER.

Hope this helps ......

Pete Tanenhaus
ADSM Client Development
email: tanenhau AT us.ibm DOT com



---------------------- Forwarded by Pete Tanenhaus/San Jose/IBM on
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01/27/2000 01:15 PM ---------------------------

Ken Franklin <kpfadsm AT HOTMAIL DOT COM>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 01/27/2000 01:07:02 
PM

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Subject:  Restoring user profiles



We have been testing ADSM/TSM to see if it will work for our organization.
We have been having problems with Bare Metal restores - every time we try
to
restore a workstation, the user settings are lost and we end up with the
default profile.  We brought a ADSM/TSM rep on sight and he was baffled.
He
had us call tech support and they told us is was an OS issue - Microsoft
Windows (NT or 95) does not allow the active profile to be backed up.  This
means in order to back up the profile, the user would need to log out, log
in with another username, run a backup, log out and log back in as
themselves.  A lot of people, in particular those who most need to be
backed
up, just aren't going to be willing to go through all that.

Is what the tech support guy told me correct?  Is ADSM/TSM really unable to
back up the active user?  Does anyone know of a workaround?

Thanks,

Ken
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