Moving user profiles

[DexX7]

WTSE 4.0 running MeteFrame 1.8 all the latest service packs applied. By default Citrix stores the users profiles in the %SystemRoot%\profiles directory. My user base is steadily growing and my free space is on the decline. I tried setting an alternate Terminal Server Profile Path to take some of the pressure off the root drive. Now, every time a user with an alternate profile location path logs on their profile is copied back to the root drive (taking 3-5 minutes). During which time CPU is maxing out and all other users feel it. Once this copy has completed the system returns to normal until the user logs off when it copies the profile back the the alternate directory once again spiking the CPU. Any suggestion on moving user profiles?

 

[slcjr777]

NT will always cache a copy of the profile when a user logs on. If you are deleting the cached profile when the user logs off, (I bet you are if disk space is an issue) then it will be re-created each time the user logs on (thus the logon time problem). You might want to consider moving the profiles to a different, larger partition on your server and don't delete them. Ref M$ Technet article Q214470 for the particulars. For everything you wanted to know about profiles check out Q161334.

 

[chifu]

Have tried to change the ProfileImagePath in the registry to move a user's profile but could not get this to work. I have a feeling I am specifying the new path correctly. What is the correct way to specify the following;

d:\localprofiles\john

Thanks.