Hello Ken, Thank you for the calrity.
So configuring 1. Folder redirection. ( speed up logon ) 2. Roaming Profiles. Ddisabling offline files/ folders ( for roaming profile users) will NOT affect the roaming profiles users logon times. There is a business reason why they dont want majority of the users to have access to offline files. :) I will test it out in a LAB. :) Cheers Rob On 4 March 2010 12:57, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > *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 > > > > > > > > -- Chris MCP ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
