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I sometimes need to run a different domain account that has higher privilege's than my logged in account to complete tasks. I've noticed that when I run as other user the settings that I specify in ADUC don't stick around after I reboot the system. The settings I'm talking about are View > Advanced Features (in order to get the Attribute tab on objects) and then extra columns I set on the Find window. So my question is, what is causing this to happen? I thought it might be a bad profile but I can log into the same computer with the other account just fine.
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If i remember, when you open ADUC (dsa.msc) or any other mmc like dfsgmgmt, dssite, gpmc, it will create a config file in your profile with the specific settings...
%appdata%\Microsoft\MMC\dsa
If you copy this file in your other profile account, this should fix your issue
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Hello
Thank you for posting in Q&A forum.
When you launch ADUC “as another user” (often using the runas /netonly technique), the snap‐in is still using the current local user’s profile for its settings. ADUC (like most MMC snap-ins) saves per-user configuration (such as the Advanced Features check and the extra columns in the Find window) in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER portion of the registry. If you run it with elevated or alternate credentials without fully logging in as that user, the alternate account’s profile isn’t loaded, and any changes you make end up in your current profile instead. Then, after reboot (or when the environment resets), those settings revert back because they aren’t part of a properly loaded—and permanently updated—user profile.
To have persistent settings for that account, you’d need to log in interactively with it (so that its profile is fully loaded).
I hope the information above is helpful.
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to let us know.
Best Regards,
Daisy Zhou
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