How To Create Domain User Profile Over VPN?

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Create a domain user account profile on remote computer connecting over VPN
Create Domain user account profile over VPN on Windows computers

create Domain user Profile over vpn Desktop support Engineers must have come across a situation where you need to create Domain user profile over VPN (virtual Private network) for a remote user computer. You would have thought the user profile can be created only if the system is connected to LAN or within your office network. If the user is sale person or consultant who sits in Client locations at the time we cannot ask the user to ship the machine to your local office to fix the problem, this include cost and time.

Below suggested method helps to create Domain user profile over VPN and is applicable to all windows flavor(Windows 10, Windows 7,Window XP and Windows Vista)

Steps by Step to create Domain user profile over VPN

Login as Administrator
Connect to VPN(Virtual Private network)
Open the command prompt window

Run this command : Please note: Change the user id ( Ex: knev) and domain name ittechsolution.com

C:\runas /user:"ittechsolution.com\knev" "explorer/separate"
Enter the password for ittechsolution.com\knev:
Attempting to start explorer/separate as user "ittechsolution\knev" ...

C:\runas /user:"ittechsolution.com\knev" "explorer/separate"

Enter the password for ittechsolution.com\knev:

Attempting to start explorer/separate as user "ittechsolution\knev" ...

RUNAS ERROR: Unable to run – explorer/separate
2: The system cannot find the file specified.

Now the User profile created.
Log off from Administrator and login with newly created used id in this case knev ( instruct the user to login on to domain with his user id and password)