[THIN] Re: How to move user profiles?
- From: "Claus, Brian" <BClaus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 08:59:51 -0500
Great info Rick -- (typo in your robocopy syntax - it's robocopy, not
rebocopy - I know it's an obvious one...just clarifying for Linda and
others so they are not like "Damn ReboCopy command isn't working! )
Some other quick and easy possible fixes:
Try doing some wildcard searches on your directory - there is probably a
lot of garbage data you can clean up.
Search for exe's, MP3, mpegs, mpg, avi, zip, tmp
See if your Internet Explorer temp file directories are full - you'll
want to keep them emptied out or at a minimum
Could even try thumbnail view searches for *.jpg and *.gif and delete
any "offensive" content you may or may not find...
Brian Claus
<mailto:bclaus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 8:02 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Rick Mack
Subject: [THIN] Re: How to move user profiles?
Actually yes. All of our users are on Terminal Server and we just did
not start out with a large enough server when we designed it to
accommodate our ever expanding use. We have other servers, of course for
their files and all of our systems, etc., but these profiles are just
getting so loaded up that we never anticipated this much. We wanted to
know if we could partition the server and add more space so we did not
have to keep having these emergency fire drills to keep things under
control as it gets full and then we have to go in and clean out all of
the clutter. Also we are now utilizing a database whereby the front end
is now sitting in each profile and that in itself was not anticipated.
Because each person has their own front end it is even bigger. I
suggested to our network engineer, just get a larger server and he said
it is not possible at this point which to me there has to be a way, yes
it may be difficult, but I want our users to be happy and not have a
full server all of the time. I told him I would turn to all of you for
help as I love you guys and you are all so smart and I know you can help
me. This has to be a common issue for people who were early birds in
using Terminal Server for few years.
Thanks,
Linda
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From: "Rick Mack" <Rick.Mack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi Linda,
I'm assuming that your question refers to locally cached,
non-roaming profiles, otherwise all you'd have to do is enable the
delete local profile on logoff option to save space and I've wasted your
and my time :-(
If you've got more than one local drive, it's not too hard to
move the location for new profiles from c:\documents and settings to
something like d:\documents and settings or whatever.
The profile folder location is defined under
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Profilelist by the
value ProfilesDirectory.
If you change this value, any new user profiles will be created
under the new profile root.
I'd strongly suggest you use robocopy to copy the profiles to a
new location, eg with the command:
rebocopy "c:\documents and settings" "d:\documents and settings"
/sec /mir /r:0 /w:0
Please be aware that the local service account profiles won't be
copied fully because the registry portion of the profile, ntuser.dat, is
in use).
To "fix" this problem use the regback utility from the windows
resource kit (logged in as the local administor) eg
cd /d d:\documents and settings
cd LocalService
regback ntuser.dat users S-1-5-19
cd ..\NetworkService
regback ntuser.dat users S-1-5-20
And even after copying all the profiles to the new profile
folder, things still won't quite work the way you expect.
Each user's local profile is registered as a subkey under
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Profilelist as the
users SID (security ID) and it has a value, ProfileImagePath, which will
still point to c:\documents and settings\%username%. So the operating
system will still expect/use these profiles in the old location.
At this point you've got 2 options, use delprof to delete all
local profiles and start again, or use a script to alter the
ProfileImagePath value for all locally cached profiles.
A very simple kixstart script, which assumes things like all
profile names are the loggedin username only (no ..001 or .domain
extensions) to do this could be:
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; setnewprofpath.kix - define new local profiles directory
; replace this value with your new profile folder
$newdir="d:\documents and settings\"
$regloc="HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList"
$count = 0
; for all the subkeys under $regloc, get the keyname
; convert it to a username and write the new profile location
:loop1
$usersid = enumkey("$regloc", $count)
If @error = 0
$userid=sidtoname($usersid)
$result=writevalue($regloc+"\"+$usersid,"ProfileImagePath",$newdir+$user
id,"REG_EXPAND_SZ")
$count = $count+1
goto loop1
endif
:end
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regards,
Rick
Ulrich Mack
Volante Systems, a division of Commander
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Sent: Thursday, 9 November 2006 1:12 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] How to move user profiles?
We have a problem with our profiles growing on our server for
Terminal and our server saying we are running out of room all of the
time. Can we move our profiles to another drive letter? If so, how do we
do that. We are in Windows 2003 Terminal Server.
Thanks,
Linda
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