Roaming Profiles

[chad]

If my users basically stay at their desk, and don't move around at all,
do I really need roaming profiles? It takes some users nearly ten
minutes to log on. If I delete the raoming profile path in AD, won't it
just load what they had on their desktop? If I delete the home folder
path as well won't that just leave all their documents locally?

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

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If my users basically stay at their desk, and don't move around at
all, do I really need roaming profiles?

Probably not, but if one of your workstations dies, it sure makes it easier
to replace it. And your users won't bitch about their IE Favorites missing,
and all that.

It takes some users nearly ten

minutes to log on.

That isn't good, but it isn't a roaming profile problem per se, particularly
as the users' profiles are already cached on the machines (unless group
policy is set otherwise). Download & install the User Profile Hive Cleanup
utility on all your workstations, for one thing, and check out the event
logs.

If I delete the raoming profile path in AD, won't
it just load what they had on their desktop? If I delete the home
folder path as well won't that just leave all their documents locally?

No. And this won't be related either - why would you want their documents
local?

You should be using folder redirection for My Documents to point at their
home directory (or wherever) whether you use roaming profiles or not - but
if you are going to use roaming profiles, keep them *miniscule*.