Windows Issues

Purpose

• Document issues I've run into with Windows and what I have done to fix/remedy the situation

AD

Profiles

• So Windows doesn't like to be compatible with roaming profiles across different versions of windows
• even better it doesn't automatically creating different profile extensions so supporting multiple versions of windows becomes a mess in a domain environment with roaming profiles
• Incompatibility list:

Profiles are compatible only between the following client and server operating system pairs: 
Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008  

• Links:
  • https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2887239
  • https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2890783
• Fix is quite easy, just add a dword to the registry, we'll just make a gpo out of it
• Open regedit(Or make this a GPO) and navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlset\Services\ProfSvc\Parameters

• add a DWORD named UseProfilePathExtensionVersion and set the value to 1

• Different profile version extensions

Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2(.V4)
Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 (.V3)
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 (.V2)
Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008  (?)

Network

IPV6

• Ipv6 takes priority for local address lookups
• can view with

netsh interface ipv6 show prefixpolicies

References

• http://superuser.com/questions/436574/ipv4-vs-ipv6-priority-in-windows-7