Best way to setup profiles

Hi all,

I am reinstalling my Windows 2003 Server (Domain Controller) and have
questions regarding the best way of handling user accounts.

1) I want to setup roaming profiles, but i'd prefer the profiles NOT to get
cached on the local computer. Some profiles are 2/300 mb in size, thus cause
log ons and log offs to take too long. Is there a simple way to ensure this
is the case or do I need to dig around in GP to turn off folder redirection
(which I felt didnt work 100%).

2) I previously experianced users getting conflicting start menus. I.e. user
A would install a product that would insert or overwrite items into user B's
start menu. I do not want this to happen, what can I do to ensure it is
avoided.

3) My old user profiles will need to be migrated over. Copying across the My
Documents data is easy enough, however what else would need to be copied?
Each user will be starting on a fresh system with no applications installed,
thus I only want to retain work and email.

Any advice on these matters would be really apprecaited.

Kind regards
Tarun


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Relevant Pages

  • Re: roaming profile
    ... Would that be the same advice for mandatory profiles? ... > Server Management and then the Users option. ... > Roaming profiles can work well however you need to educate the users to go ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • Re: roaming profile
    ... To setup roaming profiles you would use Active Directory Users and ... Server Management and then the Users option. ... called profiles and right click and share it out as profiles. ... time by using CTRL and clicking the users you want to have roaming profiles ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)