There's a difference between "doing it" and having Microsoft "support it".
Navroz Shariff wrote:
That's interesting...I have been doing exactly what the article states
one can't.
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*From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Mark Parris
*Sent:* Monday, February 06, 2006 3:56 PM
*To:* ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
*Subject:* RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Roaming Profiles
Don’t you just love Microsoft……..
*Personal folder files are unsupported over a LAN or over a WAN link *
* *
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=297019
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*From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Navroz Shariff
*Sent:* 06 February 2006 19:28
*To:* ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
*Subject:* RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Roaming Profiles
Frank,
Below is a link to MS Outlook plugin that when configured, will
automatically archive folders to a network share at regular intervals,
making it easy to keep all of you Outlook folders safely backed up.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=8B081F3A-B7D0-4B16-B8AF-5A6322F4FD01&displaylang=en
<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=8B081F3A-B7D0-4B16-B8AF-5A6322F4FD01&displaylang=en>
-Nav
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*From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Frank Abagnale
*Sent:* Monday, February 06, 2006 1:22 PM
*To:* ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
*Subject:* RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Roaming Profiles
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
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[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
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*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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