Roaming Profile Variables - User Policy

HI there,
I am trying to implement a different roaming profile location based on PC, and following TID10073109 I had theorised that creating a local environmentvariable called "roam" and referencing it in the ZENworks Roaming profile location would work.
eg: \\%roam%\Profiles\%USERNAME%
It however, does not. Nor does the PC generate any error or log anything in the event log as it normally would if the location specified was invalid.
If I replace %roam% with the actual servername it works as expected - is this a bug?
I am currently using W2k, Client 4.83SP2 and ZEN 4.0.1 IR4
Every other time I use %roam% it works - mapping drives etc etc.
Help Anyone?
thanks

Strange then that %USERNAME% works just fine.
I have tried hosts file, system and user - none work! DO you know if this is fixed in 6.5 or 7?
cheers
>>> Marcus Breiden<[email protected]> 20/01/2006 12:55 >>>
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 08:07:54 GMT, Peter Rowe wrote:
> it's a system variable. This is a terminal server (citrix) so I would not
> like to have to define user variables for each user.
hmm.. you could try IR7 agent... but I have the gut feeling that the
profile part doesn't resolve variables..
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Hi,
Thank you for posting in Windows Server Forum.
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947215/en-us
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Hi,
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Forest trust exists.
How to troubleshoot Group Policy object processing failures that occur across multiple forests
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/910206
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