Please consider logon delays when using roaming profiles - otherwise users
won't like you anymore: Redirect "My Documents", "Application Data" and
"Desktop" via GPO. Also consider redirecting "Favorites" (via registry) and
cookies. Preventing permenant cookies instead is also a good idea, if you are
allowed to...
"Healthy" profiles must not exceed 5 MB and should not contain thousands of
minor files (usually cookies).
Use GPOs to exclude directories from the roaming profile (like temporary
internet files and history) but keep in mind, that excluding directory in
combination with "Delete cached copies of roaming profiles" will simply lead
to losing these directories (which is not always a disadvantage).
When using roaming profiles on W2K3 terminal servers, I experienced that the
option of deleting cached profiles on logoff increases the "applying user
settings" logon phase - even with 2 MB sized profiles - the "Loading
settings" phase is very short, though. The behaviour came up after applying
Windows 2003 SP1.
Has anybody an explanation to that?
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Post by Vera Noest [MVP]Use a Group Policy, linked to the OU which contains the Terminal
Server machine account, and configure the setting
Computer Configuration - Administrative templates - Windows
components - Terminal Services
"Set path for TS roaming profiles"
Note that you should not add %username% here, just something like
\\server\TSprofiles
Note that you will *always* see the locally cached copy of the
roaming profiles of all currently connected users on your system
drive, but the setting below makes sure that they don't accumulate
Computer Configuration - Administrative templates - System - User
profiles
"Delete cached copies of roaming profiles"
There is no supported method to change the location of the locally
cached copy of the roaming profile, other than during an unattended
236621 - Cannot Move or Rename the Documents and Settings Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=236621
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Post by Johnny SilvaWe have a 2003 server running terminal services. The C: drive
has become full of user profiles in the documents and settings
folder. I need to change the location to the d: drive. I see
how to do this for an individual user in active directory user &
computer/ terminal service profiles. This isn't really
practical though. I need to know how to change the profile
location for all users logging into that server? Please help.