Roaming profile problem

[Guest]

I have a roaming profile question. It seems strange but I'll tell you what I
have done.
1. logged onto my PC with my romaing profile and made some changes to my
desktop
2. logged of my PC
3. logged onto my laptop and the roaming profile loaded fine with my
previous changes from step 1
4. logged off my laptop
5. logged into my PC and then made some changes on my desktop, such as
deleting icons on my desktop
6. logged off my PC
7. logged onto my laptop. Now the laptop's desktop didn't update with my
previous changes from step 5 (deleted icons from desktop did not delete). I
looked into my roaming profile folder on the server and it looks as if it
updated from step 5 because the icons aren't there anymore, but my current
logged in session didn't update on my laptop because the icons that were
meant to be deleted from step 5 still remained on my laptops desktop
8. logged off my laptop
9. logged onto my PC. The icons that were showing on my laptop's desktop are
now showing on my PC's desktop. I think those icons must have been copied
from my laptop profile to my roaming profile. There are no roaming profile
popup error messages and errors in the event logs so it seems funny that the
profile on my laptop is overwriting the profile on the server.

Do you have any ideas and solutions to this?

 

[Guest]

You may have just logged back into the laptop in step 7 too quickly - i.e.
before the profile had been updated, therefore you got the previous version
when you logged into the laptop - and when you logged out of the laptop it
was that version that was sent back to the server.

Alternatively the laptop just did not manage to get the profile when you
logged in that time (for whatever reason - roaming profiles can be a bit
flakey) and you ran from the locally cached copy, which was then sent back to
the server when you logged off.

Hope this helps.

 

[Guest]

How can I stop these problems from happening? Is there a way to only get the
profile from the server rather than use the cached profile?