[THIN] Re: Roaming Profiles
- From: "Roger Riggins" <Roger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 08:50:36 -0600
I usually use the TS Profiles property sheet on a Win2k DC to specify
the path for the TS profile. I also use a policy to redirect My
Documents. Their profiles are usually very small and load quickly. I've
found that if I just specify a roaming profile they're usually much
larger than a TS profile. I'm not sure what the difference is...except
maybe the TS profile is configured to be thinner and leave out the
garbage like temp internet files by default.
I would definitely keep a central location for their profiles and not
just redirect My Docs and Desktop. Your users won't want to customize
their apps every time they hit a different server. They'll end up
frustrated.
Roger Riggins, A+ MCSE CCNA CCA
ACES Systems Engineer
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-----Original Message-----
From: Braebaum, Neil [mailto:neil.braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]=20
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 6:44 AM
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] Re: Roaming Profiles
Can't imagine what you would gain by that... you'd still have to have
per-user central folders for these aspects of the "profile".
The advantage of stripping those things out of say the normal location
for
the profile, being that you either want them to be individual, in a
non-individual general manner - or you want them to be, for example, a
construct of the users (network) home directory.
As to what the user will lose - there will be no definite consistency in
the
registry aspect of the users profile - ie settings, look and feel.
Some of the time this *may* work - but again, will depend on things like
profile caching settings on the TS.
Personally, I'd either do, or do not - to quote Yoda.
Neil
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Rance [mailto:Steve.Rance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]=20
> Sent: 27 November 2002 12:37
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Roaming Profiles
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> A further thought...
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> If I redirect My Documents, Desktop, Start Menu and=20
> Application Data via =3D GP to the central file server, do I=20
> need to implement roaming (or =3D
> similar) profiles. =3D20
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> Basically, can I get away with just redirecting these 4=20
> things and =3D what's left is "stuff" that I can get away with=20
> not having if the user =3D logs on to the another server next time.?
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> Will this work? Is this the right way to go?, and if so,=20
> will the user =3D lose any settings or information?
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