RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Roaming Profiles

[Molkentin, Steve]

I too am a fan of local profile, but I do not think that directly addresses Frank's issues...

 

A couple of jobs ago at a school we used roaming profiles exclusively - made sense in our scenario. There was still at least 3-4 staff on a bad day that needed their profile reconfig-ed (all students used a mandatory profile). Bottom line - use GPO's to limit the size of the user "dumping" grounds, and/or redirect them. It's amazing how your profile shrink dramatically when you don't allow users to store their files as a part of their profile, you don't copy their IE cache, and redirect a couple of other folders.

 

I feel for you Frank, as with users with profiles in excess of, say, 20 MB - with your links speeds, I am amazed that you do not experience more problems (but then I am sure it is only the ones that moves sites that cause the issues... give them a laptop and make them have local profiles!).  ;)

 

My $0.02 inc GST...

 

themolk.

 

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Krenceski, William
Sent: Friday, 3 February 2006 10:54 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Roaming Profiles

I personally avoid roaming and mandatory roaming like the plague. One thing you can do is create a DFS Root for the profiles of the users that move around replicate to all of the sites that they visit. I would not recommend doing it for everyone else. I would actually stop using roaming for everyone else that does not roam. there are many alternatives to roaming using Group Policies because no matter how you look at it you are slowing down the user logon and the network especially with that many users.

 

JMTC

 

Bill

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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 remote 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

 

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