[THIN] Re: Simply Profiles / Hybrid Profiles

  • From: "Joel Stolk" <JStolk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 08:16:18 -0500

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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