[THIN] Re: How to move user profiles?
- From: "Rick Mack" <Rick.Mack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 06:30:17 +1000
Hi People,
I hate it when I get typos in imporatnt stuff.
Sorry Linda.
At least it proves I'm human, some of the time anyway ;-)
regards,
Rick
Ulrich Mack
Volante Systems, a division of Commander
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Joe Shonk
Sent: Fri 10/11/2006 0:29
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: How to move user profiles?
Rebocopy.. Interesting, sure it's not the way they spell it? Much like any
word with a z is an s?
Also note that Robocopy is part of the Windows 2003 resource kit.
Joe
On 11/9/06, Claus, Brian <BClaus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of lindaday@xxxxxxxxxxx
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+$userid,"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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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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