Tech Tip of the Day: Pretty sweet deal, workplace domains. You can go to just about any computer in the organization, sit down, log in with your own credentials and not have to share your information with every other person that sits there...oh wait, none of your stuff's on this computer!!! "But I saved it to my desktop!!! It should be there when I log in anywhere!"
By default your personal desktop, "My Documents", printer, mapped drives, and programs are all on your local PC ONLY. You save it to your desktop on your computer, or your my documents, and it saves it to that place, on that specific computer. Just because you are using your username and password on another computer does not mean that anything you've put anywhere will be there.
There are exceptions. If your organization invests in enough storage space to create "home drives" then you can be set to have your documents follow you from computer to computer. In the same way, there is a way to have a "Roaming Profile" that has your desktop, shortcuts, favorites and basic settings follow you from computer to computer. But once again, that requires an investment in storage space, as well as network bandwidth. Some companies even have a streaming/virtual desktop solution that keeps absolutely everything out there off the local machine, but these solutions aren't the norm.
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