Roaming profiles

[Miha]

Hi

Is it possible with roaming profiles to 'exclude' local settings, so it will
allways stay on local computer or be redirected via some kind of redirected
folders policy to a network drive?

We want to set romaing profiles for some of our users, but since they all
use Outlook Express, all mail is stored under
"%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities" and this will
take quite a while during log-on/off, since some of them have quite a big
mailbox files.
Thank you all in advance.
Regards,

Miha

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

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Hi

Is it possible with roaming profiles to 'exclude' local settings, so
it will allways stay on local computer or be redirected via some kind
of redirected folders policy to a network drive?

We want to set romaing profiles for some of our users, but since they
all use Outlook Express, all mail is stored under
"%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities" and this
will take quite a while during log-on/off, since some of them have
quite a big mailbox files.
Thank you all in advance.
Regards,

Miha

You can exclude certain profiles folders from roaming via group policy, but
that won't apply here "Local Settings" doesn't roam - hence the name
"local". I like using roaming profiles even when people never budge from
their desks, as it means a lot of the users' profile data is backed up on
the server....but if the machines aren't pretty much identical, with no
locally stored data, don't let 'em actually log in anywhere else.

Since you have OE users, you shouldn't let them roam to different computers,
as their OE data files will remain on their original computers - you can't
store OE data on anything other than a local drive.

 

[Miha]

Thank's for the tips.
Regards,
Miha
"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

 

[Evan]

Hi Miha
First , you should not post to massive quantities of newsgroups.
Please post to the relevent group.
Roaming profiles and Outlook Express is a problem.
Microsoft doesn't want to make it easy. They'ed preffer that you
purchase exchange server.
A Mcguyver workaround is that you can change the store folder to
C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Application Data
I have used this in conjunction with group policy redirected folders,
whereas I redirect the
users application data. The above modified store folder however is stored
within the users profile.
The reason I call this a Mcguyver solution, is that it will work fine as
long as the user keeps the amount
of mail to a reasonable size. There are always abusers that have 100MB +
worth of mail that can cause a corrupted
profile. If users adhere to good practice, of deleting their mail, empying
their deleted mail foldr and moving attachments to
their My Documents Folder. It should work well

- Evan