and pls. make use of redirecting your documents folder (and many other
things as well, such as Desktop) to a server share.
DFS is ok to use for many profile scenarios - but it won't be of much
help if the profiles get too large (still needs to be loaded by the
client, even if the source is now closer by). DFS-Replication has been
improved a lot in R2, but I'd still recommend to reduce what you keep in
your profile.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Navroz Shariff
Sent: Freitag, 3. Februar 2006 22:16
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Roaming Profiles
I would highly discourage against using cached mode for roaming
profiles. Just imagine the network resources they would be hogging up
when they log onto a different computer and not to mention HDD space. We
definitely have disable cached mode for roaming profiles.
-Nav
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Danny
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 3:43 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Roaming Profiles
I agree... but what about OST files - Outlook cached mode. Is anyone
excluding the OST from the roaming profile? If so, a new OST will need
to be downloaded at each computer the user logs into. Most are
100-300MB. Which is the lesser evil. :)
...D
On 2/3/06, Thommes, Michael M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As just another piece of this, users sometimes just throw stuff on
their "desktop" since they don't know any better or because that might
be the first location that shows up during a save operation. The
desktop is obviously included as part of the profile, leading to
bloated sizes.
Mike Thommes
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Molkentin,
Steve
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 8:45 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Roaming Profiles
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: [email protected]
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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