Handling TS Roaming Profiles Accross WAN

[supp10967]

Recently, I installed a mutli site Citrix farm. The farm had two cores sites, on int MD and one in CA. There were two common applications being used but on app live in MD and one in CA. Since I was load balancing, roaming profiles were preferred. The problem i ran into was, since all users used both apps, i can only designate ONE TS profile path per user object. I placed the profiles in MD and CA login and exit performance was unbearable.

How i solved it.

Added a host file to each box pointing to a share folder.
Created identical directory structures at each site.
In the host file placed a hostname (ctxprof) where the IP address in MD was specific to a MD file server and the CA specific to a CA file server.

host file md servers

ctxprof 10.x.x.x (Md Address)

host file ca servers

ctxprof 10.x.x.x (ca address)

***************

ts profile path = \\ctxprof\citrix\xp\%username%

I also set a GP for the server to redirect all data from My Documents to th Profile directory based on this past.

No data traverses my WAN.

Thought i'd share. Bit of a klugem but it worked. If there is a better way to do this, I'd like to hear it.

 

[brengel]

Try duplicating the Roaming Profile to a local server (DC)
at each site. THen use %LOGONSERVER% in the TSProfile Path, so it Reads %LOGONSERVER%\TSProfiles\%username%.
With TSPRofiles being the storage location for the Profiles.