Group Policy - Restricting Roaming Profiles

[Guest]

I've recently started with a largish company that has a number of servers,
all appear to have different policies. There is however one policy which
appears to be controlling the bulk of the settings including the size of the
roaming profiles. My question is, is there any way of determining which
policy is controlling the size of the roaming profile? Thanking you in
advance.

 

[Mark Heitbrink [MVP]]

Hi,

My question is, is there any way of determining which
policy is controlling the size of the roaming profile?

If you have an XP CLient you can use rsop.msc locally or if you are
using the group policy management console you can build the RSoP
within the gpmc

Mark

 

[Guest]

Hi, I've tried that but it doesn't say anything about 'Roaming Profile' size.
I've been through every group policy I can find but still no joy.

Is there any other way limiting a roaming profile other than through Group
Policy. If not is there any other quick way of searching through group
policies to determine where the profiles are being restricted?

 

[Mark Heitbrink [MVP]]

Hi,

Hi, I've tried that but it doesn't say anything about 'Roaming Profile' size.
I've been through every group policy I can find but still no joy.

Perhaps it´s a Disk Quota setting?

If not is there any other quick way of searching through group
policies to determine where the profiles are being restricted?

Policy Reporting is easiast done with RSoP.msc, but it needs
a XP/2003 Client. The GPMC is a alternativ.

If the size of the profile isn´t restricted with a GPO or DiskQuota,
perhaps it´s edited manually and this setting is applied to a Default
User Profile.

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
"EnableProfileQuota" = DWord

Mark

 

[Guest]

Hi Mark,

I've just checked the registry settings and it is set there. Thank you for
that info...much appreciated.

One more question then before I sign off...since it is set through the
registry, is there anyway to exclude one or two user profiles and not the
rest of them from this setting?

Thanking you in advance.

 

[Mark Heitbrink [MVP]]

Hi,

I've just checked the registry settings and it is set there. Thank you for
that info...much appreciated.

Your welcome.

One more question then before I sign off...since it is set through the
registry, is there anyway to exclude one or two user profiles and not the
rest of them from this setting?

Edit them manually ... or create a new security group, place the 2 users
in it, create a second gpo on the specific OU, filter it with security
settings (Remove auth.users, add your secgroup, permission: read+apply).
In this GPO explicit deactivate profilequota.

Mark