hagridsbeard

If you're not using mandatory then are you using shared roaming for each user?

Not massive, about 1.5mb. So, do roaming only get copied if there are changes? If so, is it simply a case of changing the man to a dat and if so, how do I prevent them making changes to it? Wouldn't think I'd been in the job seven years with questions like this...

But roaming profiles allow changes to be made don't they (and then copied up to the server)? In any case, this is what confuses me, with the profile (mandatory on the server), the initial logon is faster (around 40 seconds) but subsequent logons stay at 40 seconds. Without a profile, the first logon is longer, but each one after only 4 seconds. Surely with our mandatory profile, the first logon should be 40, then every subsequent 4 as the profile is already on the local machine? Or, as it's a mandatory proifle, does it get copied down each and every time regardless to the existance of a local one?

I redirect favorites to their home drive, so that's not an issue. And really, app config is still only local to each machine now anyway (as they just drag a mandatory profile down). Any settings in the MAN that I want to apply globally, I can roll out via GPP.

This is what I was thinking, but I would like to reduce that 50 second inital logon. And that was from a good machine. The 4 second ones thereafter are amazing, but that intial logon is a bummer. Espeicially for students who often use new machines. Not so much for staff though.

Just a ponder about profiles. We use a mandatory profile (from a shared drive) for all non admin staff and logons are ok, varying between 40 - 60 seconds. But I've started wondering what the purpose of a profile is. With Group Policy and Preferences, surely they're essentially redundant? I did a test taking the profile off a user and the first logon to a new machine was an upsetting 50 seconds, but every subsequent logon, even after a reboot, was 4 seconds! Which is amazing. Ideally, I'd like to go this route, but reduce the intial 50 seconds (which is when I assume the local profile is being created). Anyone got any amazing ideas or tried going profile-less with any success?

Yup, changed this a bit ago as I noticed that both %homedrive% and %homeshare% essentially go to the same place. But on testing with a user, it seems to sync, but doesn't actually locally cache the network files.

Just a quick question about offline files in Win 7. Our users get their home drive mapped from their account as normal: 'Connect H: to \\fs001\students$\intake04\joe.bloggs' etc. For those using sync center enabled laptops, I want to administratively assign that location to the sync (so they don't have to right click and make avaible offline). I've tried this via GPO and using the setting 'Administratively assign offline files' set to '%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMESHARE%' but it doesn't seem to be working. Any ideas what I'm missing?

I sorted it earlier today. No idea why, but the DivX HTML5 Video plug-in was stopping OWA from working properly. Disabled that plug-in via GPO and it all kicked back in. Very odd.

Nope, done that a good few times. Someone suggested it may be due to trusted sites, but changing that doesn't seem to have fixed it. Really odd that it does it to admin too, which siggests it is something to do with the computers GPO, but it's pretty clean so I'm at a loss.

Morning guys, having a bit of a headache here. We've got Exchange 2010 on the network and running OWA for staff and students to access email from the clients PC. However, it's suddenly started playing up. Externally it works great, but internally, you can open email, but not send or open address books. It just sits there. You can also read the first email, but none of the others even though it doesn't seem to have hung. I thought maybe it was an IE8/XP tjhing, but it happening on our Win 7 IE9 machines too, as well as under administrator accounts. Has anyone seen this or something similar as it's upsetting staff (not that that takes much).

How do, Getting in a bit of a twist here so would welcome some help if anyone understands the problem I'm having. I've got a web server running IIS 7 hosting several PHP sites (with the CURL extension enabled). Several of my sites (such as Wordpress) use CURL, but my proxy (locekd down as it's at a school) is refusing it access. I've added a rule to allow unauthenticated access out for my servers, which now let's CURL run but with a 404. On checking the errors, somewhere the URL of the CURL request is being changed to an IP (for instance, Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now is becoming 209.208.1.65/rss.xml - which is the host - so fails with the 404). Yet, if I create a PHP page that forces CURL to use the proxy, it let's it out and retrieves the correct feed using the URL, not the IP. Does this make any sense and if so, any pointers would be really welcome.

Absolutely superb. Only took a few minutes as I was familiar with the config file setup, just didn't know how it all linked together. Got a nice password prompt, then a load of tools, including WDS and Ghost. Flipping brilliant, many many thanks.

Feel really rude here as I thought I would get an email when people replied, so I didn't check, but I didn't so missed all the replies. Sorry and hello! We did have it set up (by a clever student of all people) to boot to a splash screen on F12, which needed a password. Then there were a load of options, one of which was Ghost (which we were using). Think it was called tftpd32.exe. But we couldn't do Win 7 on our version of Ghost, so switched to WDS. Now I'm thinking that WDS could have been run from that app, keeping it behind the security, but the config for this stuff really confuses me.

Hi Guys, just moved to WDS from Ghost and am a bit concerned that students can F12 right to drive management (and therefore delete partitions etc). The only way around this is to stop the WDS service when we're not using it, but that seems incredibly clunky. Is there an inbuilt way to secure it a bit more? Sorry if this has been asked, but I couldn't find it on the tips section.