[THIN] Re: Simply Profiles / Hybrid Profiles
- From: "Joel Stolk" <JStolk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 08:38:20 -0500
Flex profiles retain HKCU registry settings only, stored in a file, via
a hacked version of the MS Office profile wizard. You can use a
mandatory profile and/or folder redirection to the user's home drive
along with a Flex profile, but the profile wizard doesn't handle this
process. It's not that great of benefit IHMO unless you're using it
with mandatory profiles, because you're still pushing the same %profile%
folders to the home drive like a roaming profile. This was the main
issue we had because our home drives are remote to the Citrix servers in
a lot of cases, whereas roaming profiles are stored local to the Citrix
servers.
-Joel
-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Braebaum, Neil
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 8:26 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Simply Profiles / Hybrid Profiles
Isn't that where flex / hybrid profiles come into their own?
Not only are they allowing you to retain registry hierarchies, but also
folder hierarchies.
And you can be quite selective...
Neil
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joel Stolk
> Sent: 29 June 2004 14:16
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Simply Profiles / Hybrid Profiles
>
> The information in the %profile% path.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lilley, Brian
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 2:51 AM
> To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Simply Profiles / Hybrid Profiles
>
> Hi Joel, what are you referring to when you say "consistent
> profile information"?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Brian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Joel Stolk
> Sent: 28 June 2004 20:42
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Simply Profiles / Hybrid Profiles
>
>
> Most of our problems stemmed from MAPI profiles, and our
> variety of configurations. Unfortunately, our MAPI profiles
> have never been managed per se, and flex profiles seemed to
> fail on some of the more complicated MAPI configurations.
> Another issue was the time it took to log in was
> substantially increased with flex profiles because we pushed
> a lot of the profile information to the users' home drives.
> Since we have a lot of home drives on remote servers, this
> slowed the user experience quite a bit. Last but not least
> is the fact that a lot of our custom applications seemed to
> not do well without the consistent profile information that
> you can only get from a roaming profile; roaming registry
> settings alone did not cut it.
>
> Now, would it work well if we had everything pointing to
> centralized servers with a small set of applications?
> Absolutely. However, our configuration with standard roaming
> profiles and well managed, locked down AD GPOs works great
> for us. The only difference we make is that we point the
> profile\desktop location to their home drives, just in case a
> user finds a way to save something on their desktop. This
> change prevents the users from filling up their profile (10
> MB max) and has reduced our profile related help desk calls
> to about 2 a month out of a user pool of 3000.
>
> -Joel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Braebaum, Neil
> Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 3:53 AM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Simply Profiles / Hybrid Profiles
>
>
> I'm puzzled too with this flexibility issue?
>
> I mean, um, what *could* be more flexible than flex / hybrid
> profiles? Just normal roaming profiles, or dynamic ones as I see it...
>
> Neil
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> > Behalf Of Lilley, Brian
> > Sent: 28 June 2004 09:35
> > To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> > Subject: [THIN] Re: Simply Profiles / Hybrid Profiles
> >
> > I would be interested to hear your flexibility issues with flex
> > profiles...? We are looking at using the flex kit for resolving
> > issues of transferring roaming profiles over high latency
> WAN links..
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> > Behalf Of mathras@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Sent: 25 June 2004 22:21
> > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [THIN] Re: Simply Profiles / Hybrid Profiles
> >
> > Joel
> > Are you publishing apps from multiple servers or full desktops ?
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Joel Stolk
> > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 9:16 PM
> > Subject: [THIN] Re: Simply Profiles / Hybrid Profiles
> >
> >
> > We found that although Flex profiles are good in a static
> environment,
> > we went back to standard roaming profiles because,
> ironically, lack of
> > flexibility of Flex profiles.
> > However, our roaming profiles are extremely well managed
> > through AD GPOs.
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