The whole roaming/mandatory/default profile debate

[GrumbleDook]

It does ...

"If there is a ‘default user’ profile stored on the NETLOGON share of the logon server, then this is used in preference to the local version." as well as section 13 of http://www.russdev.com/edugeek/doku.php?id=how_to_set_up_default_user_profiles

 

This section could do with a little more info about folder redirection being used since this seems to be a commonly used to the domain default profile.

 

Damn fine work if you ask me ... well done.

[Geoff]

My bad. I missed that bit.

[Dos_Box]

Well done AJB. I have added a note at the bottom of the roaming profiles section advising about large profiles and problems that they may cause.

[ajbritton]

@DB: Thanks. I have added a note to your note to mention that the problems described can be avoided by using redirected folders to store documents and desktop on the server and setting a limit on profile size.

[Geoff]

I'll add a section on the Linux/samba way of doing it.

[ConTheITGuy]

Well done AJB. I have added a note at the bottom of the roaming profiles section advising about large profiles and problems that they may cause.

@DB: Thanks. I have added a note to your note to mention that the problems described can be avoided by using redirected folders to store documents and desktop on the server and setting a limit on profile size.

 

 

I'll add a section on the Linux/samba way of doing it.

 

I'll add a note to say that Linux isn't necessarily the only way of doing it

 

Andy.

[MkII]

Nicely put andy

 

I think we're getting somewhere at last tho'

[palmer_eldritch]

I'd be very interested in any info regarding roaming problems...sorry, profiles here. Our biggest bugbear is having to clear locally-stored profiles off machines that have been scrambled in some way - so the user cannot then log on. A quick fix but it's a tedious fault which occurs with some frequency.

[ChrisH]

Are you not using something like delprof to delete the local ones?

[palmer_eldritch]

Are you not using something like delprof to delete the local ones?

Not as it stands here at the moment, no. That kind of decision is out of my hands, though....

[ChrisH]

You need somthing like Delprof run in the startup and shut down scripts to get rid of these.

[Ric_]

Are you not using something like delprof to delete the local ones?

Not as it stands here at the moment, no. That kind of decision is out of my hands, though....

 

Why?

 

Just stick delprof in NETLOGON and add the following line to your startup script:

delprof /q /i /y

[ajbritton]

@ric: Would you care to document the usage of DELPROF in the WIKI?

[kingswood]

The Wiki is superb!

 

Great work ;-)

 

Paul