Microsoft KB Archive/269509

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OL2000: How to Use Digital Certificates and Roaming Profiles

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Q269509

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Outlook 2000

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SYMPTOMS
When you use roaming user profiles on a computer that is running on a Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows 98, or Microsoft Windows NT-based computer, you may not have access to your digital certificates in the properties of either Microsoft Internet Explorer or your e-mail messaging programs.

CAUSE
This behavior is by design.

RESOLUTION
To resolve this behavior, maintain a copy of your exported digital certificate, the .pfx file, in a folder that moves with you. When you log on to a computer for the first time, import your digital certificate into Internet Explorer, and then set up your digital certificate for all required programs.

MORE INFORMATION
To use digital certificates with roaming user profiles, you must install the digital certificates each time that you move to a new computer. You must also have the permissions to make changes to the HKEY_USERS and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE hives in Registry Editor. For you to use the certificates, they must make entries in these registry hives.

By default, roaming user profiles do not include information in the HKEY_USERS and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE hives; the HKEY_CURRENT_USER hive contains all user-specific information.

If you install a digital certificate on a computer that uses roaming user profiles, that information exists only on that computer. If you move to a new computer, your profile information from the HKEY_CURRENT_USER hive moves with you. The registered items from the HKEY_USERS and the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE hives do not move with you, so the digital certificate does not exist on the new computer.

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