Roaming Profiles - Best Practices

[JoeySpills]

Hey all,
I have 2K3 DC with about 50 XP WS's with roaming profile users. Anyone familiar with a scenario like mine? Currently I'm goin effin buggy satisfying my users do to that fact that some of these profiles going up and down the pipe are extremely large in size.

I'd like to implement a stiff disk quota, restrict certain files (.wma, .mp3, etc) and thought of removing roaming profiles in its entirety as well. Any help/suggestions greatly appreciated...thanks
-J

 

[AdamKerr]

Might be an idea to set up folder redirection. I done that (only 10 clients mind) and it seemed to solve alot of the logon lengths and profile corrupting.
I have a share called \userdocs$ and redirect folders to there.

 

[Sybje]

Hi,

Folder Redirection is the way to deal best with roaming profiles...

I should redirect My Documents to the home folder of the users. You should even redirect application Data to another folder on the server. This is extremely helpful using applications of Adobe and Macromedia.

All this can be done with the GPO in Active Directory...

 

[JoeySpills]

Well the way AD and the GPO that sits on it is configured at the moment is to only have users "My Documents" redirected to a "home" folder in a directory called "Users" on a DC share that was setup. Nothing else is configured at the moment. Where should I really start with this.

Thanks so far everyone,

J

 

[customgt]

Yea JoeySpills, that is exactly how ours is setup currently.

We probably only have 20 users doing the roaming profile though.
I had one computer HD crash. I put a new one in, copied down the My Documents of that computer from the server, and had it back and going again soon as I got our programs installed back on it. Very Cool, didnt lose no files!

Not sure if anyone else does this, but on C: i create a folder called LARGE FILES. I put stupid non important large files here, like program downloads (Zip, EXE, etc)then create a shortcut to it on the desktop. This way it isnt wasting storage on the server, and isnt slowing down the network syncing. If the HD crashes its not that big of deal to lose stuff in this folder.