Laptops and roaming profiles

[WhizInTraining]

Hi,

 

We've got a number of laptops which are used by our students, but the logon times reportedly take ages. I've tested this out using my account, and it took my account which is 200mb in size, 6 minutes to load.

 

Any suggestions?

[James-iCT4]

I'm afraid you'll get more questions back than answers but here's a start:

 

Why do you use roaming profiles?

What are the laptops? Spec?

What's your WiFi like?

What are the speeds like over a cabled connection?

What operating system are we talking about?

What are you redirecting? Desktop? App Data etc.

What are you doing to keep profiles 'clean' (if anything)?

 

I'd strongly recommend investigating whether it would suit you to ditch roaming profiles and set up a mandatory profile - you could try it on a couple of machines, you could even keep a copy of that profile locally using a script to copy it down from the server at boot if updates have been made.

 

As ever, it's about what suits your school but I'd certainly start with a test user and a mandatory profile (or even just a temporary profile, depending) to see how well that works.

 

Good luck!