Roaming profiles

[Miha]

Hi



We're planning to use 'roaming' profiles for our company users. They all
have Win2000 or WinXP desktop stations, our domain runs on a Win2003 server.



After configuring a test user profile to be a roaming I noticed, that after
I log-in to a computer, a profile is first created on a local computer and
after log-of it is copied to server, where we set a shared folder for
profiles. That's ok, I assume that this is how roaming profiles work. So I
logged into a domain from other computer and great all data was right here
for me.

But the strange is, that every time that I log into a domain from a
different computer a profile is also created on a local computer (under
documents and settings), and after log out the profile stays on a local
computer, with all the data in it - local profile is not deleted.

Is this normally for this type of profiles or can be changed?. I'm asking
because after a while user profiles can get quite big, since users store all
kind of data J

And I really don't see a point to have a local and a server copy of a
'roaming' profile. Or am I wrong?



Thank you all in advance for help and info

Regards

Miha

 

[seth]

the best thing that i've found is to use folder redirection, specifically
for the my documents folder, so they are actually seeing a folder on the
server, instead of part of their profile
that will save on having to download a huge profile every time

as far as having a local and roaming profile, you need to have a profile
locally when you are logged in, but if the profile remains after logging off
(and you don't want that), the group policy can be changed in AD to clear
cached copies of roaming profiles