D: Remove roaming profiles (because you have a mixed 2k/XP environment, and if they move around they might be subject to profile corruption when moving from OS to OS) and keep redirecting My Documents.
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Kelli Sterley <kjsterley.li...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi - > > I have inherited an issue and need some help with it... Wondering if anyone > else has some ideas on what to try. > > I have a remote site, which includes 7 2000/XP desktops and it is connected > via VPN tunnel. Each user has told me their login and logout takes > forever. I've timed it and it's well over 5 minutes. > > They use their desktops for mostly internet and some excel and word. They > connect to our terminal server for the rest of their applications. > Currently the users are setup with roaming profiles, the profiles are > located at our main site on a server which means it has to be copied over > the VPN. Their my documents are also redirected to another folder on a same > server when they login to either their desktop or the terminal server. > > I am trying to find the best solution to reduce the login/out times and > keep things as simple as possible. > > Do I: > > A. Have the users login locally on their computers instead of using domain > logins? Remove the roaming profile and keep the my documents redirected to > the server? > > B. Have the users continue to login using their domain logins and remove > the roaming profile and remove the redirection of their my documents? Teach > them to save things directly to the mapped network drives. > C. Any other idea? > > What do others do with remote sites/roaming profiles/folder redirection. > > thanks - Kelli > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
