[THIN] Re: Roaming Profiles on a farm - is this still safe?
- From: "Jan Broucinek" <tinybeetle@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:17:56 -0500
I don't know if it is "safe" or not. But I use roaming profiles for
about 500 people on W2K3 TS/Citrix with no problems.
Jan Broucinek, System Manager
Arthur Rutenberg Homes, Inc.
(727) 536-5900 voice
(727) 536-7168 x245 direct
(727) 538-9089 fax
www.arhomes.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Jameson" <rjameson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 10:09 AM
Subject: [THIN] Roaming Profiles on a farm - is this still safe?
I have been using roaming profiles since NT4 days, some sites it works
good, others it may go really downhill. When setting up plain MS
TS2000/2003 - I continued this approach for it has been working. I
typically assign a TS profile path via GPO for all TS users (the TS
machine gets the GPO and lockdown desktop for users) and use the
cached
copy approach where the copy remains on the TS itself.
Now, we introduced a citrix server to handle only published apps (no
published desktop thru citrix) that has accounting programs and office
suite (to allow email integration in the accounting suite). Nothing
special was done with the citrix box other than install the programs
and
publish them - it is pretty much alone.
Question - when you start working with published apps and growing the
farm - is it still a good & safe idea to use roaming profiles? Is
there
some caveats of having profiles now roam from the profile path, to the
login TS server and then the citrix box? Reason I ask - during our
testing setups, when we launched the published app, the users email
settings automatically roamed to the citrix box but only the first few
did this. After about 4 or 5... the roaming of settings stopped and
we
got errors when emailing out of the published app about no outlook
profiles set. I ended up publishing outlook to setup each user's
outlook mail setup manually then remove outlook as a published app (it
is a manual approach, but I needed to get it done in a hurry).
So my question, has anyone seen this before? I am only working with
40
users so not a big deal in the setup but thought it odd how it just
stopped. This is a new PS3.0, all win2003.
thanks for any input.
Ron Jameson
Hamlin Technologies
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