Terminal server drives filling up with profiles

[Andi]

I keep getting an issue where my terminal server is getting clogged up with gigabyte beyond gigabyte of user profiles? Surely this isn't right is it? What have I set wrong?

 

We use a vanilla 2003 server XP client network, with roaming profiles. Some rooms have terminal clients in them which connect to a 2003 Windows Terminal Server using Thinclient.

 

I've read somewhere that I need to set a different profile for users to use when connecting to a terminal session, but if I do that how will it affect the end users?

[Geoff]

The way i have it here is:

 

1) Delprof runs at machine startup.

2) Terminal Servers reboot weekly (Sunday AM)

[Andi]

Interesting, thanks.

[Butuz]

My terminal server reboots every night to delete profiles and freshen itself up!

 

Andrew

[Geoff]

Seems a bit overkill to me. Do you really need to reboot daily?

[Guest kerrymoralee9280]

We never reboot our TS here. Never seemed to have had problems with profiles clogging it up, it runs very smoothly.

[Geoff]

All our Windows boxes get rebooted regularly. It's just asking for trouble not to.

[Guest kerrymoralee9280]

Yes I agree, All of ours do to, with one exception. The TS box never gets a reboot, and quite frankly it's been up for about 3 months now without the need for one, without any problems developing whatsoever.

[Butuz]

Yes I agree, All of ours do to, with one exception. The TS box never gets a reboot, and quite frankly it's been up for about 3 months now without the need for one, without any problems developing whatsoever.

 

Until the next reboot :twisted:

 

Andrew

[ICTNUT]

@kerrymoralee9280: Of Topic But if you have not rebooted your TS server in 3 Months I take it you don't patch it??

 

I know that there have ben fixes for W2k3 that have required reboots....

 

Just a thought....