I think managing roaming profiles in a typical desktop environment can be fairly easy as long as you've configured the proper folder redirection. However, I would caution your use of PSTs on a network share, especially since it doesn't appear you've had to deal with that so far.
Read this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297019 Roaming profiles in a terminal services or Citrix environment is an entirely different beast all together. Especially if you have different application silos. That is where you run into frequent profile corruption or other odd issues due to last write win scenarios. Solutions such as Citrix Profile Manager or AppSense help mitigate those issues. - Sean On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:35 AM, John Aldrich <[email protected] > wrote: > Yes, you are correct, we do not have Exchange. Currently we are using PST > files for email storage, and I generally either put them in the root of each > user’s profile or in their “My Documents” folder, so I guess redirecting “My > Documents” might be the best choice. > > > > [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] > > > > *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Monday, July 19, 2010 3:26 PM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Roaming Profiles server > > > > Roaming profiles won't likely gain you much, and if your environment isn't > homgonized on the OS, then definitely stay away. If you're looking to > backup data, then redirecting My Documents is probably the biggest. If > you're not using Exchange (as, I recall), you'll have to do something about > backing up email that is on each machine. > > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:21 PM, John Aldrich < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Great. Any suggestions that don’t cost an arm and three legs would be > appreciated. J > > > > [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] > > > > *From:* James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Monday, July 19, 2010 3:16 PM > > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Roaming Profiles server > > > > 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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