In our group policies I have this set so they save in the "My Documents" folder on the desktop, however this is actually "virtually mapped" to a storage space on our servers. That way I do not need to worry about mapping drives for staff for this.
Dan Davis Network Administrator Spirit Lake Comm. School District (712) 336-3707 ext. 1300 dda...@spirit-lake.k12.ia.us From: Mitch Mueller [mailto:mmuel...@emmetsburg.k12.ia.us] Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 1:44 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: RE: [info-tech] User Profiles Ok. I will have to take a look at it again. I thought we just turned off roaming profiles but I might look into that. So does your staff save everything to their my documents on their local machine or to their personal drives? From: info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us [mailto:info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us] On Behalf Of Dan Davis Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 1:27 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: RE: [info-tech] User Profiles I use roaming profiles for staff, not students. This is handled via our district AD servers. I also delete the roaming profiles off of the local computers for students when they log out via group policies which are in place. Dan Dan Davis Network Administrator Spirit Lake Comm. School District (712) 336-3707 ext. 1300 dda...@spirit-lake.k12.ia.us From: Mitch Mueller [mailto:mmuel...@emmetsburg.k12.ia.us] Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 1:27 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: RE: [info-tech] User Profiles Ok. So would it be better to use roaming profiles or not? From: info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us [mailto:info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us] On Behalf Of Dan Davis Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 1:20 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: RE: [info-tech] User Profiles If you are not using roaming profiles from the server, then each staff / student who logs into a computer will get a newly created profile on the local machine, unless they have one from before. This can take up quite a bit of hard drive space over time. When someone logs into a computer, the first check is for a server (roaming) profile, then second is the local computer, and then finally one is created locally if needed. Dan Davis Network Administrator Spirit Lake Comm. School District (712) 336-3707 ext. 1300 dda...@spirit-lake.k12.ia.us From: Mitch Mueller [mailto:mmuel...@emmetsburg.k12.ia.us] Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 1:18 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: [info-tech] User Profiles We are having problems with our user profiles updating here. We are running Windows XP SP3 and the servers are server 2003. I aren't using roaming profiles so I'm not sure if it is not suppose to update. Just a question. If you have any information of what might be going on please let me know asap. Thanks Mitch Mueller Emmetsburg CSD
