Move local TS profile to new server 1

[fs483]

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How would I move local TS profile easily onto a new TS Server ? I was thinking of enabling roaming profiles and have it stored somewhere else. Then when everyone has logged in once, I can deactive the old TS server and have the users log into the new server. Would that work ?

thanks
akwong

 

[snootalope]

yep, that'd work. (force roaming profiles) Just make sure the profile unloads to the spot you specify.

If there's any software differences between the two servers, you might have to do a little configuration or the server might do it for you..

 

[snootalope]

I take that back.. if you have roaming profiles setup and it's looking in place that a profile doesn't exsist, I think it create a new one, thus the old one wouldn't copy over. pretty sure about that....a simple test could tell ya for sure.

 

[adamc1115]

1) Create a folder on a server for your profiles, share it.
2) Log in as administrator on the old ts.
3) Right click on my computers, go to properties, click on advanced, click settings under user profiles, highlight each profile and click copy to and select the users folder on the profiles share created in step 1.
4) In AD Users and Computers, click "Terminal Services Profile", set the profile to that users profile that you copied.

This is better than a roaming profile, because the roaming profile is going to copy all of the users junk from their desktop computer as well as the terminal server.

 

[w33mhz]

Or you could just try coping the profile folder to the new server and be done with it if you just going to a single terminal server enviornment

 

[fs483]

Hmm, I like adamc1115's idea. Since the switchover won't be done in one night, then copying the folder like w33mhz would cause problems. The migration will be done in steps and this server has users on it 24hrs a day 365days a year. Not kidding, the users are all over the globe and with the different time zones, there's always someone online. I'm lucky if I can get 30 minutes without someone online to do occasional reboots after updates. With a path specified in the Terminal Server Profile path, then even if user adds stuff to their desktop, it will be stored in the shared folder and when I'm ready, I just have to switch off the old TS server, change the routing in my firewall and voila ! Will do some tests tomorrow if I can get Windows installed on the new TS machine.

thanks
akwong

 

[adamc1115]

The other advantage to my solution, is that they can log into either terminal server and their profiles will remain in sync.

Nice, in case they can't get into something at 2 AM, they can just log into the old server.

 

[fs483]

Tried the solution from adamc1115 however got some permission problems. Let's make it simple. I have 3 servers. Old TS, New TS, Filesrv. Created share called profiles and gave everyone read only. NTFS permissions on this share is everyone read only. I copied the profile from the Old TS to a share on Filesrv. Changed the TS path in AD to point to share of Filesrv. User logs in fine but when items are placed onto desktop, there's an error. "Windows cannot update your roaming profile. Possible causes of this error include network problems network or insufficient security rights. bla bla bla contact your admin". I'm pretty sure it's a security rights error because everything loads fine (Outlook settings...). I ven tried Domain users modify for the NTFS security rights.

 

[markdmac]

You have locked them out. Share rights and NTFS rights are merged together with most restrictive winning.

Give Share permissions of full control. On each users profile assign them modify rights to their own profile directory.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

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[fs483]

Yeah I got it working. Solution is great. All the TS profiles are migrated to the files server. New TS is almost ready. Still have some GP tweaking to do. I think I got through the difficult part. Now I just have the longer tedious parts like adding a dozen mailboxes to a 3 dozen users. Each user needs full access to other user's mailboxes... Then this long weekend, I'll need to exmerge the about 25GB of psts back into exchange. Hopefully that will be completely automatic.

Thanks for all your help.

 

[adamc1115]

I think actually roaming profiles requires full control (not just modify.)