Interesting - we're putting nearly 80k users onto roaming profiles :) Cheers Ken
From: Don Guyer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, 20 July 2010 10:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Roaming Profiles server During a recent meeting, as soon as the words "roaming profiles" came out of my bosses mouth, I shot that idea down like a lame duck. :) Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> From: tony patton [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 5:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Roaming Profiles server + Infinity+1, if it was up to me, they would be long banished in this place. Between corruption, security permissions getting fscked, stupid inconsistent quotas on the profiles resulting in either not being able to shut down the PC, or the profile not fully copying to the server causing all deleted items to be copied down again when the user next logs in. Lots of fun, there is a lot to be said for mandatory profiles. If it was up to me I'd probably also do something like DeepFreeze/SteadyState the PCs. Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> From: Richard Stovall <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: 19/07/2010 19:31 Subject: Re: Roaming Profiles server ________________________________ <$.02> Roaming profiles are the spawn of the debbil when he was in a particularly bad mood. Think twice about using them unless you really need to. IMHO, redirecting "My Documents" and whatnot is usually a better / easier solution. <$/.02> I know there are valid use cases, but for many small shops I don't know if they apply. On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 2:19 PM, John Aldrich <[email protected]<mailto:[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. :) ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
