Here is the scenario, you have an old NT Domain chugging along side your bright shiny new AD Domain. You are bringing people into the new AD domain via a complete re-image of their client Windows XP computer. BUT, some folk have too much junk built up on their local hard drives and too many oddly configured maverick programs running that it just plain makes like easier to join them to the AD domain rather than spend the hours moving their files to AFS and then back again to the local hard drive.
So you join the computer to the new domain and with roaming profiles active. Everything seems to be working ok, you just have to move some desktop icons onto the new domain user account (c:\documents and settings\racerx.NT\desktop\ to c:\documents and settings\racerx.AD\desktop). No problem, they move fine.
But when the user logs into the AD domain and clicks on a program sometimes you get this wonderful message:
This is a shortcut generated by windows itself! It points to a place
on the local hard drive and it never had this warning before.
Well, what is happening is that some of the icons on the desktop and in the Start Menu are stored on the AD profile server. So the client is reaching out to the AD to get the icon from the server and windows is asking for permission to run this icon from the remote location even though it is pointing to a locally stored program.
There is an easy way to make this extra step of telling windows it is ok to execute these files. you can set up a “trust” between your local machine and the profile server. You do it by adding your AD domain to the Local Intranet settings of Internet Explorer.
Right Click on Internet Explorer on your desktop and
select Properties. From there click on the Security Tab.
Click on the Local Intranet Icon and click the Sites Button.
Next Click on the Advanced Button
Then enter your AD domain to the zone and click on ADD.
Simple as that. Click on OK for the rest of the entries to close all the dialog boxes opened and right away the annoying “Are you sure” window will not appear again.
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