[THIN] Re: Moving profiles to a SAN/any less painful way to do it.
- From: "Steve Raffensberger" <sraffens1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 09:25:11 -0400
Jim,
This is all pretty straightforward except the GPO for your small test set of
users. Here is the process I've used several times.
*Anytime*
1. Copy the data from your existing location to the SAN. (I use robocopy
over a long quiet time like a weekend to do a mass original copy. You can
then verify all the files, sizes and permissions before actually using the
new location. I make a final, incremental robocopy on the day of the move as
described below.)
2. Write a script utilizing tscmd and tsprof that changes the TS profile and
TS home directory for the user %1.
3. Write a second script that calls the first script in a for loop,
obtaining user names from a text file.
*Day of move ... Disable all logins during this part*
4. Perform final incremental robocopy and examine log for errors that must
be resolved.
5. Populate the text file containing user names. (I usually use a directory
listing from the original profile location but you could get it from AD or
whatever.)
6. Run the script created in step 3. Redirect output to log file. Check for
and fix errors.
7. Change GPO to redirect to the new location.
8. Change permissions on the old directories to read only.
9. Reboot all the Citrix servers. (Probably only gives GPO time to be
distributed.)
10. Test with a few user logins of different types.
To test with your small set of users, you can use the scripts on a small,
manually created text file. Then create a new AD security group and put your
test users into it. Then "overlay" the standard GPO redirection setting with
a second one that applies only to this group. After moving the rest of the
users, simply go back into AD and remove the overlay.
Good luck,
Raff
-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Jim Strowe
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 7:32 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Moving profiles to a SAN/any less painful way to do it.
I'm putting up an HP Storageworks SAN and want to start moving my roaming
profiles home location to it. The profiles are currently on server A and
I'm wanting to move them to my SAN. GPO handles a lot of the redirection of
My documents, windows directory, etc.
What are the logical steps for a migration plan since I do have a LOT of
users. I've seen some VB scripts, would that be one piece of the total.
I'd obviously want to test this with a small set of users./ I'm not sure
when I should change my GPO in this process. (since I do use folder
redirection)
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