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| trebor 2001-03-08, 3:29 am |
| Forgive me if this is verbose but I am trying to understand what is happening in this question:
You configure roaming profiles for users in your company. Some of these users save large documents to their My Documents folder. Because the My Documents folder is part of a user's profile, these users tend to experience slow logon times due to the time it takes to download their profile. You would like to have the contents of the My Documents folder remain on a central server rather than being downloaded to the user's desktop each time he or she logs on. Which would be correct way to achieve this?
Answer: Enable Folder Redirection through Group Policies and configure the My Documents folder to be redirected to a share on the centralized server.
Explanation: You use the Folder Redirection extension to Group Policy to redirect certain Windows 2000 special folders to network locations.
When roaming user profiles are used, only the network path to the My Documents folder is part of the roaming user profile, not the My Documents folder itself. Therefore, its contents do not have to be copied back and forth between the client computer and the server each time the user logs on or off.
FINALLY THE QUESTION. Why would the users experience slow logon times when only their profile path is downloaded at logon?
trebor | |
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| FINALLY THE QUESTION. Why would the users experience slow logon times when only their profile path is downloaded at logon?
Ok ...being that I am new at this I might offer a suggestion..see if it works 
They might experience slow logon because the folder is large and it is stored locally on the system, I think that they mean when they logon it automatically downloaded to the desktop and it producs a slow logon process because it is a large file....
if all are logging on at the same time..and trying to access this "rather large"- "My Documents" folder from several locations at the same time, it could also produce a slowdown.
eek I hope this helps | |
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| I would have to agree.
If you have a user who has a roaming profile with a large "My Documents" which is 10MB in size, the user would experience long logon times. By redirecting the "My Documents" folders to a share, then the user accesses the folder via the network and hence, only downloads the documents that they open. | |
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| Roaming profiles can be a big problem for any network. With a roaming profile, if somebody has an image of their kids saved and used as wallpaper, every time they log on to a different machine, that file gets downloaded to the local system. Same goes for the My Documents folder. Redirection is great, as it allows you to backup documents from a central location, and no matter where the individual logs in, their files are accessable without any action on their part. It appears to them as if the My Documents folder never moved. | |
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| Without redirection just what is downloaded when a "roaming" user logs on. I thought it was just desktop settings and preferences.
Obviously it must be My Documents, what else?
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| To my understanding...please correct me if I am wrong. But your ROAMING PERSONAL PROFILE carries anything that you "personalize" on your desktop....and stored on the network server...so therefore...
The key thing here in the situation you have mentioned is that the My documents folder has been saved on the desktop...hence in settings.... so If you have created and maintained all of your personal and other documentation in a My Documents folder for example...
and saved it to the desktop for easy access...that configuration will follow you from desktop to desktop..and if that file or others that you have created there is rather large like a picture of your children as wallpaper...
it can make for a slow logon process because it in essence has to be downloaded each time you login.
Screen savers, network settings, customized desktops (as above), and program groups are some examples of a roaming profile.
ROAMING PROFILE-
a) Centralizes administration of policies
b) Is applied to any computer the user
logs on to
ROAMING MANDATORY PROFILE-
a) Assign to one or many users
b) Users cannot modify
ROAMING PERSONAL PROFILE-
a) Assign to one user
b) User can modify
The latter of the three is the type of roaming profile your situation refers to
Does that help? | |
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| Thanks for that.
You must wake up early, Flynmonkie. It looks like you posted that at about 4 or 5 in the morning if you are from Kansas City. | |
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| I started the first of 2 classes that cover the 70-210 and 70-215 exams this week and there was alot of "new information" so I have started early this morning! HA! I am having a time with the CIDR process and thought I would try to get a good grasp on that so that I can move on to the permissions..I think that is a bit confusing!
Have you ever gone to sleep at night and for some reason your brain has decided it is the computer and it just rattles and rattles until you figure something out...that is how it was for me last night! Good grief I can't wait till this is completed! And I am sure you will see posts from me during those times | |
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| You want to make sure you have CIDR down cold. It is from experience that I say that. You will find it very necessary as the tests progress. As far as the profiles, you are correct. Everything will be transfered to the machine you are logging in on. My documents will be transfered also, unless you specify to rediredt the folder in their profile. |
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