No we are not redirecting folders. So I am going to make up a sheet telling staff to save everything to their personal drives from now on. Just as a precaution.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richardson,Tony Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 10:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [info-tech] User Profiles Just read your question again. Yes saving their documents to their home folders is their only option unless you redirect "My Documents" which will help with applications. Tell them also not to save to their desktop unless they use the same PC all the time and the profile doesn't corrupt for some reason. Otherwise it is roaming profiles and those can be bandwidth expensive and a bit of a mess at times. Thanks, Tony Richardson, Technology Coordinator Humboldt Community School District [email protected] _____ From: [email protected] on behalf of Mitch Mueller Sent: Fri 7/17/2009 7:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [info-tech] User Profiles Ok. But my problem is, is that our files are not getting backed up to the server. Our staff each has their own personal directory but when we log off nothing is backing up I guess. So should they be saving all of their files and documents to their personal folders? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richardson,Tony Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 2:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [info-tech] User Profiles You could remove the message boxes and do a little rewrite on the script to have it check for the day of the week. Then run it from an AD org unit as a policy to clear those fat student profiles weekly when the computer starts up. Roaming profiles consume a bunch of bandwidth if there are a lot of them. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richardson,Tony Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 2:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [info-tech] User Profiles Here is a vbs script that I use to quickly remove student profiles from a pc it works rather well. Substitute your own profiles in the CASE statement that you want to keep. Call it what you want with a .vbs extension and run it on your lab pcs. ------------------------------- On Error Resume Next Dim obtainfolder, PathFolder, strPath, x, strFolder() Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") strPath = "C:\Documents and Settings\" Set f = fso.GetFolder(strPath) x=0 intResult = MsgBox("Are you sure you want to clear all profiles?", vbYesNo + vbQuestion, "Warning") If intResult = vbYes Then For Each fldrItem in f.SubFolders fldrName = fldrItem.name If Right(strPath,1) <> "\" Then PathFolder = strPath & "\" & fldrName Else PathFolder = strPath & fldrName End If Select Case fldrName Case "Administrator", "All Users", "Default User", "LocalService", "NetworkService": Case "Administrator.HCSD" Case "richardson_t.HCSD" Case "richardson_t" Case "tech1" Case "tech1.HCSD" Case "student" Case "student.HCSD" Case Else: ReDim Preserve strFolder(x) strFolder(x) = PathFolder x=x+1 set obtainfolder = fso.GetFolder(PathFolder) obtainfolder.Delete true End Select Next for x = 0 to ubound(strFolder) strMsg=strMsg & vbCrLf & strFolder(x) next msgbox "Profiles Deleted:" & vbCrLf & strMsg Set fso = Nothing Set fc = Nothing End If From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mitch Mueller Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 1:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [info-tech] User Profiles Ok. I will have to take a look at it again. I thought we just turned off roaming profiles but I might look into that. So does your staff save everything to their my documents on their local machine or to their personal drives? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan Davis Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 1:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [info-tech] User Profiles I use roaming profiles for staff, not students. This is handled via our district AD servers. I also delete the roaming profiles off of the local computers for students when they log out via group policies which are in place. Dan Dan Davis Network Administrator Spirit Lake Comm. School District (712) 336-3707 ext. 1300 [email protected] From: Mitch Mueller [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 1:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [info-tech] User Profiles Ok. So would it be better to use roaming profiles or not? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan Davis Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 1:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [info-tech] User Profiles If you are not using roaming profiles from the server, then each staff / student who logs into a computer will get a newly created profile on the local machine, unless they have one from before. This can take up quite a bit of hard drive space over time. When someone logs into a computer, the first check is for a server (roaming) profile, then second is the local computer, and then finally one is created locally if needed. Dan Davis Network Administrator Spirit Lake Comm. School District (712) 336-3707 ext. 1300 [email protected] From: Mitch Mueller [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 1:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [info-tech] User Profiles We are having problems with our user profiles updating here. We are running Windows XP SP3 and the servers are server 2003. I aren't using roaming profiles so I'm not sure if it is not suppose to update. Just a question. If you have any information of what might be going on please let me know asap. Thanks Mitch Mueller Emmetsburg CSD
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