Odd Profile Issue

[Mr.Ben]

Help Please! :-)

 

I'm building a nice new Windows 7/2008 network.

 

I've set up my new network, added a new user and given them a roaming profile. The roaming profile happily creates itself.

 

I have then used folder redirection to redirect several folders back to the roaming profile, instead of them being downloaded every time a user logs on.

 

When I log in I am seeing 2 folders for each and every redirected folder - one seems to be the local profile version, one the redirected version. Both merge on logout, but obviously this will be very confusing to the users.

 

Am I missing something?

Edited December 15, 2010 by Mr.Ben

[AngryTechnician]

I've never heard of anyone doing it quite that way before. What I consider to be the 'normal' practice is to redirect the folders to a location completely separate from the profile, i.e.

 

Profile folder:

\\server\share\profiles\username

 

Redirected folders:

\\server\share\folders\username\Documents

\\server\share\folders\username\Pictures

\\server\share\folders\username\AppData

 

etc

 

If you do it this way, the 'local' versions in the profile are then completely redundant and can simply be deleted so that only 1 shows up (I do this at login so that the user never has an opportunity to save anything there).

[Mr.Ben]

Thought I might be trying something a little 'different'!

 

My current XP/2003 build works differently, mandatory profiles for all with folder redirection to a different share - I'm trying to see If I can keep everything the profile though!

 

I don't want to use mandatory profiles again - I work in a special school and would like to be able to edit individual profiles for the specific needs of our students.