[windows2000] Re: Roaming profiles

From: "Etts, Russell" <retts@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:12:22 -0500
Hi Chris and Greg and everyone else who replied to this thread:
 
Thank you very much for all your assistance.  I really appreciate all
the help you have given me.
 
Thanks
 
Russell

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From: Greg Reese [mailto:GReese@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 4:34 PM
To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [windows2000] Re: Roaming profiles


Holy Cow!  50 MB.  I don't let my roaming profiles get over more than
5MB.
 
Here is what I do:
 
Create a dummy user account to be the "template".  Don't set a profile
path.  Let it login and get a local profile.  Get all your settings how
you want while logged in as this user.
 
Log out.
 
Log in as Administrator and open the system properties.  Find the
profiles tab and select that user.  Click the copy to button.  Copy it
to the location you want to store the roaming profiles and change the
permissions to allow everyone access.
 
Now set that user's profile path to be the location you copied that
local profile to.
 
To keep the profiles small do the following:
 
Give your users home drives.
Redirect My Documents, Favorites, Cookies, and Application Data to the
Home Drive
Redirect the Temporary internet files to C:\Temp.
 
Use the template user you made with all the settings, redirections etc
as the base for your other users.  Just copy that profile, give the copy
the name of the user and set that users profile path to match.
 
There are other ways to do it.  They are probably better but this works
for me and has been for a while now.
 
Greg
 

        -----Original Message-----
        From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Etts, Russell
        Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 2:28 PM
        To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
        Subject: [windows2000] Roaming profiles
        
        

        Hi all 

        I've been presented with the project of making roaming profiles
work.  Can anyone who currently works with Windows 2000 roaming profiles
give me some inside info?  I remember reading once that once a profile
gets over 50 megs, they can be unruly.  

        I have the MS KB articles (142682, 307964 and 224012), but I
would feel better hearing from someone who has gone through this...

        Thanks 

        Russell
[windows2000] Re: Roaming profiles

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