Frank,
 
Holy cow!  Are you serious? 1GB profiles?  Are you sure you dont mean Home Directories? 
 
 
Q)  If you have a 265mb link and a 1GB profile and a 100 Mbps connection, how long does it take to download a profile during peak usage (i.e. first thing in the morning)?
(I am in a Math 102 class right now)
 
A)  If the user has 25.6Mbps available to his/herself at the time it would take 86 hrs 48 mins and 20 seconds to download their profile (with zero utilization).
 
Source http://www.numion.com/Calculators/Time.html
 
Why do you not restrict the amount of data allowable in the profile based upon industry standards, taking into account your site level connection speed?
 
Like most organizations, we deal with them by restricting the size.
 
Nate
 
 
 


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Abagnale
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 4:51 AM
To: Active
Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Roaming Profiles

Hi all,
I have a question regarding Roaming Profiles. Our environment currently have 3500 users which are all roaming profile enabled. Their profiles are stored on the local site server. We have approx 56 sites which are all linked by 256-1mb lines.
I like the concept of roaming profiles, however some of our users have profiles ranging from 5mb - 200mb, some even with 1GB profiles.
Because alot of our users log on to different computers at different sites, we are finding issues with corrupted profiles and logon speeds. On a few occasions, where a user has been added to a group, the permissions assign to this group are not shown when the users is logged back on. Deleting the profile and recreating fixes this issue but it's quite a time consuming effort.
How does everyone deal with roaming profiles if used? sometimes there are instances where users just want to logon to the PC without their roaming profile so they can remot! e desktop to their PC. In this situation they have to take their profile across which can take forever depending on the size of profile and link.
Any creative ideas? how about using DFS to store the profiles?
Thanks
Frank
 


Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses.

Reply via email to