RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Roaming Profiles

Mon, 06 Feb 2006 10:23:20 -0800

No need to apologise, I blame spielberg anyway.
 
frank


"Ulf B. Simon-Weidner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sorry - wasn't sure if it's your real name. If I'd choose a fake name for a community yours is in the top10 ;-)
 
Hope you don't mind.
 
Ulf

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Abagnale
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 11:28 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Roaming Profiles

Ulf & everyone,
 
thanks for your responses, roaming profiles are mandatory here, if we were to take this away, all hell would break loose.
 
I guess educating them to store files elsewhere would be a good start.
 
thanks
 
Frank
 
Ulf - you are not the first to mention Carl Hanratty, you won't be the last!

"Ulf B. Simon-Weidner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Frank,
 
with those large roaming profiles you need to
1. educate your users
2. question the use of roaming profiles
 
In fact I've seen a lot of companies who tend to stick to local only profiles in the recent past. Roaming profiles are great - however I see them in infrastructures where people are moving around on multiple computers a lot, and where they don't have that much individual applications. I would use roaming profiles for the production workers who are spending not a lot of time on the computer and might share a pool of computers, however for the regular office worker and the board of directors I'd use local profiles since they tend to work on the same computer a lot and also travel a lot.
Educate them not to store their critical data within the profile, and maybe a desktop backup software which is taking care of their profile and data when connected comes in handy too.
 
Carl Hanratty
 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Abagnale
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 10:51 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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