Re: Vista - Roaming Profiles

Hi,

As far as I know the "User Profile Hive Cleanup" is built-in to Vista. It's only required when you run badly designed software that does not properly manage open handles (such as some Microsoft software).

Are you sure you're using Vista ADM files? If it says "cached copies of ROAMING profiles" then it should only delete roaming profiles, not local ones. If your "teacher" profiles are also roaming, then it's working correctly. If your teacher profiles are local it sounds like a flawed setup. Is this a per-machine or per-user setting? If it's per-machine it will affect everyone who logs on.

McMurray wrote:
In our student GPO I have enabled the "Delete cached copies of roaming profiles" setting. In XP with the help of the "User Profile Hive Cleanup Service" the local profile for students is deleted when they log off the computer. In setting up a Vista workstation it appears that this setting does NOT work as the profiles persist on the workstation after logoff. The User Profile Cleanup Service" that we install on XP workstations is not usable on Vista.

There is a setting applicable to Vista "Delete user profiles older than a specified number of days on system restart". If I set it to one day the profiles will dissapper the next day BUT not just Roaming Profiles but ALL profiles. We would prefer not to delete teacher profiles at all so this setting goes too far.

Any suggestions or thoughts?

TIA

Mark


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