Profiles

[Sentro]

For years now I have used mandatory roaming profiles for 99.9% of my users. These have worked great as the staff and students are constantly moving machines. We use these in combination with folder redirection and we redirect all the possible folders to the users home share.

 

This has worked great but now that more and more things require user customisations such as Windows Store Apps and cloud services like GoogleDrive (which doesn’t support even standard roaming profiles) I now need to develop this solution.

 

I'm fine with giving users as much freedom as possible, the only reason I used mandatory profiles was to improve reliability. How on earth do you get a nice, reliable and low overhead profile system whilst still giving users the freedom to customise as they wish.

 

I've used standard roaming profiles but they seem to slow down after a while and we've played with UEV but that doesn’t support everything.

 

I'm not really asking for the answer but more asking what do you do?

 

Thanks

[MordyT]

Well, we use regular non roaming profiles on each PC. We customize the default profile so when you log on you get a set experience. Doesn't mean you can't break it though. If you hose your profile somehow we just delete and have you log in again