Roaming Profile

[Vince]

Hi All,

I'm running win2k and active directory with three OU's.
One OU in the UK, One OU in the US and One OU in Sydney.

Here's my problem: When a user travles to another office
and logs onto the domain, it takes about 15 to 20 minutes
to load their profile.

Keep in mind that the Global Catalog for each OU, is not
sync its database due to wan bandwith. Could this be the
source of my problem. If so, is there a workaround for
this.

Thanks.

 

[nb]

I would copy the traveling user's profile from their home
OU to the OU that they are logging into, then ofcourse you
would have to change the path in their profile path as
well!

 

[Jimmy Harper [MSFT]]

You can enable userenv logging on the client machines with the instructions
in the following article:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;221833

This will log the process of loading the profile when the user logs on.
Each line is time-stamped so you will be able to see where the delay is. If
the user is logging on in one country and their profile is stored on a
server in another country, it is probably just taking a long time to
download the profile.

Some things you could do would be to decrease the size of the profile or
exclude some folders from roaming.