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Matt J
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 Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 8:45 am Post subject: Folder Redirection and Roaming Profiles |
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Hello,
I am trying to figure out something. I have looked through a lot of
posts and TechNet info and cant seem to get a straight answer.
Right now, I have 2000 users using roaming profiles and they eat up a
ton of disk space. I am purchasing a large disk array to move to 2 TB
and I want to employ redirection when some resources are restructured,
new GPO's, new profile size limits, etc.. to speed up logins / logouts.
I want to still use RP but I want to redirect everything in My
Documents to their Server Folder. I want all their settings to follow
them like desktops, colors, favorites, outlook settings ( we use
exchange 2003), etc..
I setup the user's profile the identical way correct?
\\server1\Profiles\%username%\
Here is where I run into my problem...
Where do I point the My Documents redirection to?
\\server1\Profiles\%username%\docs\ ? or \\server1\Users\%username%\
(meaning a completely different share?
I want to keep the profile size under 50 MB - 75 MB's Max. Should I
redirect other folders besides My Docs to achieve this? I will be
empting Temp Inet files on browser close / log outs.
Thank you in advance. |
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| Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 5:27 pm Post subject: Re: Folder Redirection and Roaming Profiles |
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On 15 Apr 2006 21:45:15 -0700, "Matt J" <mattjjensen@insightbb.com>
wrote:
| Quote: | Hello,
I am trying to figure out something. I have looked through a lot of
posts and TechNet info and cant seem to get a straight answer.
Right now, I have 2000 users using roaming profiles and they eat up a
ton of disk space. I am purchasing a large disk array to move to 2 TB
and I want to employ redirection when some resources are restructured,
new GPO's, new profile size limits, etc.. to speed up logins / logouts.
I want to still use RP but I want to redirect everything in My
Documents to their Server Folder. I want all their settings to follow
them like desktops, colors, favorites, outlook settings ( we use
exchange 2003), etc..
I setup the user's profile the identical way correct?
\\server1\Profiles\%username%\
Here is where I run into my problem...
Where do I point the My Documents redirection to?
\\server1\Profiles\%username%\docs\ ? or \\server1\Users\%username%\
(meaning a completely different share?
I want to keep the profile size under 50 MB - 75 MB's Max. Should I
redirect other folders besides My Docs to achieve this? I will be
empting Temp Inet files on browser close / log outs.
Thank you in advance.
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\\server1\Profiles\%username% is correct for the RP.
I would redirect the my documents to \\server1\Users\%username% rather
than the Profiles directory. Don't want it to be confused or added to
the RP.
I would also find a way to get and keep files off of the desktop. For
some reason, my users LOVE to put documents on the desktop. This is
what normally bloats the RP. That, and newsgroup participation seem
to make a RP grow like a bad weed.
Keeping the RP under 50M isn't that difficult, just watch the desktop.
Some files from the RP are not returned to the server on logoff (Local
settings folder and all sub-folders, for example) and you can manually
tell the system (GPO) to exclude others like the Temporary Internet
Folders as well if you so desire.
Mike |
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