To roam or not to roam

[Tim Guy]

I have a customer with 3 main sites. All sites are connected via 2Mb links
only.

They never have had roaming profiles (win98 strickly local) but want to
start roaming around the network.

In light of today's user profiles, even without the usual temp folder crap,
my docs etc, the installed programs on the workstations are creating 10Mb+
profiles which are taking an age to load / unload at logon / log off

We're thinking of just turning roaming profiles off and letting the user
recreate there're environment at each site.

When I think of turning roaming profiles off I always think that Ive turned
off a basic requirement of a Windows client/server setup.

How many of you guys run without roaming profiles???? We will still use GPOs
for desktop configuration, they just wont roam.

Silly idea? Or an inevitable solution for today's big profiles?

Tim

 

[ZoomZoom]

I dont use roaming at all - we have just found them to be a pain. No
problems running without them as long as majority of users use the same
machine every day.

 

[serverguy]

Have never used roamers. When we build our images, one of the last steps is
to copy the profile to the default user profile location. This way every
user who logs into the machine for the first time gets all the shortcuts we
created and so forth. It gives us a way to present a "standard company
desktop" (at least for the initial login) without using mandatory profiles
or roamers.

 

[Ken]

Same here... nobody roams in my domain

-----Original Message-----
I dont use roaming at all - we have just found them to be a pain. No
problems running without them as long as majority of users use the same
machine every day.



usual temp folder
crap, think that Ive
turned We will still use
GPOs

 

[Massimo]

"Ken" <[email protected]> ha scritto nel messaggio

I love roaming, I think it should be obvious to find all of your settings if
logging on to another workstation.
But roaming is very often painful, since a lot of thins are handled quite
badly by Windows (ever tried roaming a desktop wallpaper on Windows XP, or
OE's mail database?). Anyway, I don't understand how a 10-MB profile can
exist, without docs and the Local Settings directory...

Massimo