Don't let me scare you too much - we had a lot more users than you are looking at. But honestly, if you can get a decent profile management tool, it would be worth it in spades, as the amount of GPO redirection and user manipulaton options available now are very wide-ranging and useful. There may be other options out there....YMMV
On 19 July 2010 20:07, John Aldrich <[email protected]> wrote: > Yikes. With an IT staff of just one (me) I don’t think I want to go that > route. Guess I’m going to work on just migrating certain folders… Thanks! > > > > [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] > > > > *From:* James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Monday, July 19, 2010 2:55 PM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Roaming Profiles server > > > > I've been through the hell of Windows roaming profiles. We used AppSense > with mandatory profiles which was vastly better, we have now moved on to > using Citrix Profile Management (which integrates nicely as it uses GPOs to > deploy) and it is *much *better than Windows profile handling. In fact, > I'd go so far as to say MS could learn a lot about profile handling by > looking at CPM. We haven't had more than two corrupted profiles since we > went live three months ago. In the windws-onlydays, we'd get that many per > day. > > On 19 July 2010 19:19, John Aldrich <[email protected]> wrote: > > Do you guys have a separate machine to handle roaming profiles, or do you > just use the DCs to handle that? I’m looking at setting up roaming profiles > (eventually, when I get a storage appliance to handle the disk space > requirements) for desktop D/R (in case of a virus getting in and trashing > the PC or something.) > > > > Also, can you exclude things like “My Music” and “My Pictures” from roaming > profiles? I’d rather **not** be backing up people’s personal files. J > > > > [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] > > > > > > > > > > > -- > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into > the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able > rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such > a question." > > > > > > > > > > -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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