From: helpdesk UK [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, 4 March 2010 6:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Roaming profiles
Hello Ken, Thank you for your response...but I am still unclear. let me try and explain how I interpret the statement from MS. 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. Implement roaming profiles. Implement folder redirection for folders which are possible ( with Windows 7 as more and more folders can be efficiently redirected using GPO ) 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. So if I want to enable GPO "Disable offline files" for a specific set of users which should not be allowed to have access to offline files feature. Than reading the above sentence I feel this will affect the roaming profiles as roaming profiles takes help of offline files to speed the process up in the background.? No - roaming profiles does not rely on Offline Files/Folders. Instead the profile can be cached on the local workstation. This cached copy can be loaded when the server hosting the profile is not available. A roaming profile is loaded from the server every time the user logs on. If the user has 1GB of data in My Documents, then 1GB of data needs to be copied when the user logs on. Redirected Folders helps avoid this problem by allowing you to: a) Store My Documents outside the Profile path - hence speeding up logon b) Sync My Documents via Offline Files/Folders feature. However the folders you have "redirected" (e.g. My Documents) are not cached locally *unless* Offline Files/Folders are enabled. This is all relatively trivial to test. Just set up two VMs - one for your server and one for a workstation and see how it actually works. Cheers Ken ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
