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What are the functional differences between .profile .bash_profile and .bashrc

What are the functional differences between the .profile, .bash_profile and .bashrc files?
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Outlook 2013: how to reset to "first run" status?

TL;DR Is there a way via script, powershell, reg delete, via telekinesis, whatever to reset Outlook 2013 as if no profiles ever existed and it was running for the first time ever? Still working through this one but hoping others have…
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ZSH not sourcing zprofile

I'm running zsh 5.1.1 on Ubuntu 16.04. It seems that ~/.zprofile isn't sourced at login nor new terminal. ~/.zshrc is sourced however. I am running oh-my-zsh. Any ideas on why this is or how I can fix it?
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Roaming user profiles in Linux

My company is evaluating a plan to migrate from Windows to Linux. Can you suggest something in Linux analogous to roaming user profiles and domain users in an Active Directory environment?
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Precached Windows Logins?

I know if a Windows users logs into a machine, and later that machine falls off the network, that the user can log in to the machine with cached credentials. Is there any way to precache those credentials? (Without having to log into each and every…
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Migrate user profiles to new Active Directory Accounts

I have a few users in a very old workgroup that log directly into their local machines (Windows XP Pro). This week they're finally moving to active directory and will need to log into domain accounts instead. However, some of these users have been…
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Moving C:\Users to another partition on Windows Server 2008 Standard

On a Windows Server 2008 Standard-server I have two partitons, named C: and P:. I would like to move the user profiles directory C:\Users to P:\Users Is it possible? Is it supported by Microsoft? Could this result in any problems when upgrading etc?…
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Make windows 7 client compatible with windows 2003 server

I am sysadmin for a small business with 30 clients. We have a server running windows 2003 and all the client-computers run windows XP. Now this is not an important issue, but it would be nice if it worked. My personal (home) computer is running…
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Migrate local profiles to roaming profiles

What are "things to think about" and best practices to migrate a large number of users from using local profiles to roaming ones?
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Use mandatory profiles on the RD Session Host server

I want to configure my Windows Server 2008 servers like this. A user logs on, they load a profile that has been configured for that server and no changes can be made to the profile. I want to do this is with a mandatory profile, and 2 policies:…
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Are there any issues switching a user from a roaming profile to a local profile?

We have a Windows Server 2003 environment with XP Professional laptops. If I switch a user from a roaming profile to a local profile in active directory, by clearing the profile path, will this cause any problems on the laptop the user always uses? …
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Windows Vista profile gotchas?

We have a large network using a standard XP centrally managed configuration. We have a small number of users who need a 64 bit desktop OS for memory reasons. If we give them Windows Vista machines is there anything we need to especially watch out…
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Windows 10 domain login (auth) to local account

I was a bit unsure how to phrase the title to this question so apologies for any confusion. This is a lab environment (higher ed) with ~300 machines. We are upgrading our image to Windows 10 this summer but we need to address login and user-profile…
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Crontab /etc/profile.d

I have a crontab script which runs fine from the interactive shell. However when running from crontab it fails because it doesnt run the scripts in /etc/profile.d/ (e.g. /etc/profile.d/java.sh) Whats the best way of fixing this?
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Recovering OST file without profile

We have a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and offer this solution to many customers. Recently, a customer had his personal Exchange server crash (which is what made him our customer). He called some technician to see if he could repair his server…
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