Friday, 30 April 2010

The location of the User Profile for Network Service on Windows Server 2008 & 7

This kind of thing should be easy to find, but I couldn't hunt it down on google. So to save someone else some pain, here it is - the location of the %USERPROFILE% / home directory for the NT AUTHORITY\NetworkService user:

(drum roll...)

%systemroot%\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService

which usually translates as:

c:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService

The user profiles for other "well known" service accounts (such as LocalService) are siblings of this directory.

I hope that saves someone some time...

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3 comments:

  1. Dave14 September 2010 at 15:06

    THANKS TONS. Definitely was what I needed to know.

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  2. Anonymous11 November 2010 at 17:25

    You just got rid of my headache. Much much appreciated

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  3. Anonymous23 January 2012 at 22:28

    Thank you very much. I kept getting pages saying how there's a new structure in Win7/Win2008... but they wouldn't come out and say "Hey, btw... we moved the folders to the Windows Directory."

    Thanks again

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