Any ideas will be much appreciated ? I am a little confused reading this the way i interpret this ( the roaming profiles take the help of offline files technology in the background to assist in a trickle feed the profile. So if I disable the offline files for user type 2 the profile might land up loading very slowly )
cheers Rob On 3 March 2010 18:45, helpdesk UK <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > A quick question regarding offline files & roaming profiles. > > I am in the midst of installing a new Windows 2008 R2 domain and now at the > point where I need to implement GPO. > > I have two types of users. > > 1. Which need too have offline files ( senior mgmt ) > 2. Normal users ( should not be able to use offline files ) > > ============================================================== > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732275.aspx > > If you use Roaming User Profiles, you can use Folder Redirection to reduce > the total size of your Roaming Profile and make the user logon and logoff > process more efficient for the end-user. When you deploy Folder Redirection > with Roaming User Profiles, the data synchronized with Folder Redirection is > not part of the roaming profile and is synchronized in the background by > using Offline Files after the user has logged on. Therefore, the user does > not have to wait for this data to be synchronized when they log on or log > off as is the case with Roaming User Profiles > > ============================================================== > > so if I disable offline files for user type two will that than affect the > roaming profiles i.e. logon times? > > Please shed some light in this area will be much appreciated. > > cheers > > Rob > > > > -- Chris MCP ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
