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Hi I am setting up Roaming Profiles on Server 2012R2 We have recently purchased EMC storage. Its up and running and AD can reach it easily Is there a way to map the shared drive of EMC to windows server so that i can set permission on the stuprofile folders. Options which are there for local storage attached are not appearing for EMC since its not local or cannot be mapped. I want to restrict users to their respective profiles only How can i manage it? thanks

Scenario is this: partition on server where profiles are stored is too small for the users profile to be saved back to the server when they logoff. Therefore even if I delete files at the local level to make their overall profile smaller, it doesn’t get saved to the server. Then when the user logs on again it will bring back the ‘old’ profile with of course all the files you deleted. I need to get into the users folder on the server and delete files that are ‘trapped’ in their profile. The issue I see is as administrator I have to take ownership of this folder which may fowl things up. How can I delete the ‘trapped’ files? Can the users profile on the server be deleted and recreated on the next logon? Trying to wean the users off roaming profiles. Don’t really like them.

Hello everyone, I have two file servers and I use Roaming Profiles and have redirected Application Data and Desktop to shares on the server. I am looking at using DFS-R so that I can replicate these Roaming Profiles and Redirected Folders between the two servers. I have implemented DFS using an Active/Passive approach whereby clients always use the targets that point to File-Server1 and then should that server be unavailable they point to the file-server2. My question is: How can I increase the speed of failover for DFS, for example should file-server1 be unavailable there is a as little delay as possible for clients switching over to file-server2. (The two file servers are also the domain controllers for the network, with file-server1 holding all of the FSMO roles and both servers being a global catalog.) Is there anyway of using DFS-R to replicate the exchange mailstore databases. I am not bothered about having any fault tolerance regarding the running of exchange itself, but I would like to replicate the mailstore to another server for redundancy. Thanks again! Jonathan.

Hi all, Has anyone been testing/deploying the new Adobe Creative Cloud Shared Device packages, essentially CC 2019. The .msi packages generated by the Adobe Enterprise site are pretty badly configured to say the least, appearance of unwanted desktop icons and auto launching CC login box to name but a few ... we've solved most of these issues by implementing a GPO to delete icons & registry settings, although it would be nice if we didn't have to do this in the first place. However, the biggest show stopper for us at the moment is the amount of per-user data some of the CC applications create upon initial launch and insist on storing in the roaming section of users profiles, C:\Users\*username*\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\...\... this can be anything up to 1Gb of information just from initially launching the applications, not even using them. This is rather a lot of data to be dragging across the network during logon and will exceed the per-user storage quota we assign to our users, it's the kind of data other vendors redirect to a users home drive to avoid making the roaming profile bulky & slow. I've currently got a ticket open with Adobe who let slip that a number of Schools/FE/HE had been in touch reporting similar issues, which got me wondering, has anyone here experienced the same or similar issues? Any workarounds or fixes would be gratefully received! I'll update this thread as and when I hear from Adobe. Many thanks, Ben

We have roaming profiles for all users in our school and occasionally, a few users log in to a computer to experience a blank desktop with no icons? Any suggestions on how to fix this issue would be much appreciated! There are no error messages. The issues only plague the user rather than the computer. Thanks !

Hi all, don't you love roaming profiles? Right well we have a 2008 R2 system using Roaming profiles. Each student is setup to \\servername\logons$\%username% and the same is for the GPO setting in Computers\User Profiles to point to the same path. Some google sites have suggested that it should be \\servername\logons$\%username%\ (with that extra back slash at the end). I am correct in asuming that Roaming profiles take their settings from GPO and no - pre build profile is required? like the mandatory. This seems to work well BUT XP clients are having issues, where there is no desktop/start menu/ no GPO settings are copied down. You can imagine I am pulling my hair out, I have gone through all the settings and cleared out the XP profiles just incase they are causing the problem. Does anyone have any ideas? we switched from mandatory to roaming because we had the opposite problem where XP clients worked fine but Windows 7 was randomly not working and students were required to log off and back on possibly up to 3-4 times before it worked. Any help would be great edit: When it goes very slow for XP clients that is when it struggles to properly login. Have done even more testing and one minute it works fine, next problems occur. The slow ones seem to sit there for about 5+ minutes where the ones that work are pretty instant.

Hello, The start menu in the user's roaming profile is not getting merged with the start menu in the local all users profile. This only affects Win 7 / Server 2008 R2. XP is OK. To elaborate:- When a user logs onto a Windows 7 machine or Server 2008 R2 machine, there are group policy preferences to create shortcuts in their start menu\programs folder. It works in XP, and in Windows 7/2008 the shortcuts do get created in the users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs folder, but the user cannot see the shortcuts when they click the start/all programs button. The user just sees the local start menu - their profile start menu isn't merged with it. I've spent hours on this and cannot understand why this is happening. The Start Menu and App Data folders are not redirected. It works perfectly for the desktop - I can create shortcuts for the desktop and the users sees a combination of the machine's desktop shortcuts and theirs. Any ideas why the start menus don't merge? Thanks.

Opening Bluesy Slavo "I woke up this morning, and my computer don't work no mores! I said, i woke up this morning, and my computer don't work no mores! I was working with Windows, when i should have been listening to Doors!" Alright, poor effort but, it is on the fly!! So, back to my problem. Facts: Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows 7 I login to my PC when at school and on the network and booyah!! Everything is dreamy. I go home and login and all my shortcuts on my taskbar do not work and happily asks me if i want to remove them. My Documents is not there. Just does nothing. My Start Menu pinned items do the same as the taskbar items. As far as i am aware, CSC is on. Anyone got any ideas? Muchos Gracias.

Hi all, I'm currently putting together our Windows 10 Enterprise 1903 build and seem to have hit an issue with UWP apps, having spent almost a week working on this issue I thought I'd ask here to see if anyone else has encountered the same issue or has any tried and tested work-arounds from previous builds? Having used the excellent 'OneDriveMapper' powershell script for a number of years I decided to test the latest OneDrive client with 'Files on Demand' enabled, I want OneDrive to sign-in automatically for our users so I've followed documentation to allow our on-premises AD joined devices to perform a Hybrid Azure AD Join, which is a requirement for OneDrive client SSO. The majority of our users hotdesk or use computer labs so we still utilise Ye-Olde Roaming Profiles, we've been evaluating U-EV but there's a number of 'features' that have prevented us from rolling U-EV out, mainly surrounding Outlook client but also the amount of on-going work required managing & maintaining XML templates for U-EV. Anyhow, we're currently observing the following: Log on to a Windows 10 device with a new account that uses a roaming profile OneDrive signs-in automatically (SSO) as expected All UWP apps open and function correctly - eg. Calculator / Maps / Edge / Photos / Skype / Snip & Sketch / Sticky Notes / Voice Recorder / Weather etc ... Office 365 Applications (Word / Excel etc) are signed in (SSO) and function correctly Providing a locally cached copy of the roaming profile remains on the device you can login multiple times to the same device and everything works perfectly, however, if the locally cached profile is removed via GPO or if the user moves to another lab device, things start to fail ... If the locally cached profile has been removed or the user moves to another Windows 10 device OneDrive fails to sign-in - "We can't sync your OneDrive folder" UWP apps mostly fail to open or briefly flash up (attempt to open) and immediately close with the exception of: Maps / Edge / Skype / Sticky Notes Office 365 Applications show an exclamation mark against the account name - "Sorry, we can't get to your account right now. To fix this, please sign in again." I've also tried the above with an account that uses U-EV and get the exact same behaviour, all works fine initially with a fresh account and whilst there's a locally cached profile but if the locally cached profile is removed or the user moves to another device, things start falling apart. I assume this behaviour is due to the fact that UWP apps store information in the 'Local' part of a user profile ... but surely there's a way to make UWP apps work in a domain/hotdesk/lab environment? Any advice, assistance, thoughts gratefully received!

I have the "Add the Administrators security group to roaming user profiles" set to Enabled in "Default Domain Policy" before loggin in users (since it won't apply to folders that are already made). However Administrators still doesn't get the permissions. What is wrong with my settings? I also did try gpupdate /force and restarting the server. Picture related. Please help, my brain is imploding.

Hi! im trying to get windows 7 clients internet explorer history to sync up with their roaming profiles. i thought this did it automatically but looking at the profiles history is being saved C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\History I need it to save to their roaming profile not local I got a script that runs on shutdown to delprof my computers so history is deleted on shutdown ive spent most of the morning trying to get this sorted so that IE history will follow them around school! can someone help me im running a Server 2008 R2 domain with Windows 7 Pro x64 Clients, all with IE9 on them. p.s. didnt windows xp and server 2003 automatically sync browser history and temp files with their roaming profiles!!!?? or is the new V2 profiles that dont sync up any more!!??

Hi, Been trying for a couple of days now to get folder redirection working on Windows 7. Currently works with no issues on Windows XP and Vista. However creating a new user and performing the first log on in Windows 7 has issues with Profiles and Redirection. I have tested redirection in the following manner - Create a New OU in AD Block Inheritance to this new OU Create a single Group Policy Object, defining only Folder Redirection Create an account in the new OU Define the Profile path and Home Drive as current users are set up AND Define the Profile Path and Home Drive as new areas on a new share (even tested with Everyone - Full Access on share and NTFS permissions) When logging in it does not work as it should. However if i log into a machine running Vista, then log out and back into Windows 7, there are no issues at all! Windows 7 cannot create the profile properly perhaps? As i have seen issues where the users roaming profile has confused folder redirection (Points it at C:\Users\%username%) and deleting the users profile has solved the issue. Either way, profile is created and populated, redirection creates the areas on the home share, however cannot map them properly Anyone had this issue and conquered it? Many thanks, Psy

We have a complete existence of 32bit PC's and all Staff & Students have roaming profiles. We are wanting to start introducing 64bit OS's for our Computing & Engineering suites but realise that there is an issue with the roaming profiles being shared between to 2 different architectures. There is no-way of keeping Students that use 64bit PC's away form the 32bit PC's, and due to the number of users, there is no-way of using separate accounts. Please can someone with the experience of migrating from 32bit to 64bit OS's across a school/campus suggest how they approached this and their final solution. Many thanks in advance.

Hi ive set a group policy for our users computers to delete roming profile upon logoff around school. it does delete untill they restart their computers and it comes back with there roaming profile with the following c:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\InputPersonalization\TextHarvester\ and a dat file called "TextHarvester.dat" is left behind. this now causes the user to have a second local roming profile created with the .001 extension everytime they login ive done some home work on the internet and seen some people blame it on the "TabletInputService" ive disabled this service in a group policy preference. it seemed to have worked at first then the problem comeback some people on another forum think its down to the "Windows Search" Service. and theres no way im disabling that as our users need it!!! im ripping my hair out. im running a windows server 2008 r2 domain with windows 7 professional x64 clients around school has anyone actually resolved this problem as i am seeing different results on various forums! Hope someone can help Regards

Hi All Sorry another thread about this situation: We are typical Vanilla network 2008 R2 Server System with almost all machines being Windows 7. Our current roaming profile system works but there are snags, one being the first time some one logs on it does not load a profile (they get no settings, no start menu etc etc - it looks like a clean slate) then they logoff and logon and then they get the roaming profile. This happens 1st time for anyone without a profile on the server. Another issue is every now and then a certain group of PCs will decide to take 10 minutes to logon, strange thing with this is when 1 PC in a room starts the whole model range of those PCs do the same thing - and at random times. If we built the room from CD we will not have an issue at all, yet if we rebuild them using FOG they work for a while but there seems to be a chance that it occurs again some months later. I think its some kind of network driver issue? what do people think? It does not occur every where, like we have a model of 60 machines in two rooms which have started to randomly logon slowly yet our ICT suites up here with 30 machines each are unaffected. The worst thing is these machines some times then begin to slow down upon logoff and shutdown? to me this is a Driver/Fog issue? I have looked through GPO/User accounts to make sure all is setup correctly and all seems good the only thing I can think of is: Some sites say \\server\share$\Username\ located in the GPO setting and the user account. Yet other sites say \\server\share$\username (without that final slash). That setting must match in the GPO settings and the user account am I correct in that? For the first problem I am thinking that it requires a pre-built profile yet the googling I see says Win7 does not require one. And that the GPO setting requires \\server\share$\PreBuiltProfile\ and the user account has \%username%\. Our system works except these two little snags and the first problem is sorted out after they logoff and on again but the second problem is fixed by machines being re-imaged. We not long re-imaged most of our machines and the problem did not exist for some weeks after that. Any Ideas? shots in the dark? I have checked DNS, DHCP, GPO settings, Account Settings, Errors and all is looking good. Does the GPO setting for Roaming Profile match with \%username%\ ? or \%username (or different) ? Any thing will be much appreciated

Best Practice Roaming Profiles and Folder Redirection (aka User State Virtualization) Have to say that this article on the Group Policy Blog is pretty much spot on for most things you'd be looking for in setting it up. Kinda got there before discovering it (typical init?) but still, worth looking at even if you have set it all up. Hope it helps Nath.

What are the downsides of a pupil not having a profile configured. I have always used a mandatory profile. I read other stay away from roaming for pupils and some don't. I know from reading on here that others may use a super mandatory profile. I wondered what the downsides of not having a profile at all configured are?