I personally avoid roaming and mandatory roaming like the
plague. One thing you can do is create a DFS Root for the profiles of the users
that move around replicate to all of the sites that they visit. I would not
recommend doing it for everyone else. I would actually stop using roaming for
everyone else that does not roam. there are many alternatives to roaming using
Group Policies because no matter how you look at it you are slowing down the
user logon and the network especially with that many users.
JMTC
Bill
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Abagnale
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 4:51 AM
To: Active
Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Roaming Profiles
Hi all,
I have a question regarding Roaming Profiles. Our environment currently
have 3500 users which are all roaming profile enabled. Their profiles are stored
on the local site server. We have approx 56 sites which are all linked by
256-1mb lines.
I like the concept of roaming profiles, however some of our users have
profiles ranging from 5mb - 200mb, some even with 1GB profiles.
Because alot of our users log on to different computers at different sites,
we are finding issues with corrupted profiles and logon speeds. On a few
occasions, where a user has been added to a group, the permissions assign to
this group are not shown when the users is logged back on. Deleting the profile
and recreating fixes this issue but it's quite a time consuming effort.
How does everyone deal with roaming profiles if used? sometimes there are
instances where users just want to logon to the PC without their roaming profile
so they can remote desktop to their PC. In this situation they have to take
their profile across which can take forever depending on the size of profile and
link.
Any creative ideas? how about using DFS to store the profiles?
Thanks
Frank
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