Re: Terminal Services and User Profiles Question

Nice work!

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"TimParker" <timpar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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well I just dug out my printouts of the GPO's and what settings they
change and I found the one for the MyDocuments redirect, and it
appears to be enabled, and linked to multiple OU's but its not enabled
on any at all! I just enabled it on the OU that I have myself in and
POOF my my documents properties now shows it on the Server that they
had it set up for, it no longer shows up in the "local Profile" copy
or in the directory when I look at the "roaming profile" on the
server!

Once I figure out why these are not enforced, my guess is that it
didn't help anything for the remote login problem at the time. I will
be able to take out the hard-coded server name and use %logonServer%
once I get the directories replicated.

Now to create a property for the desktop redirection and start testing
that. My personal profile is still about 40MB in size, so there must
be something else in there.....wish me luck. Thanks again for the help
and guidance so far!

On Jun 9, 12:30 pm, TimParker <tim...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Quick question about redirecting my documents and the desktop and
such. I believe we have a GPO for doing my documents, I am still
skulking through the policies. But what should I actually be seeing
from a "workstation" perspective? I am using my workstation and
account for "testing" and seeing how this affects things.

If I go into C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\My Documents on my
computer, I still see the files that I have in my documents. If there
is a redirect policy in place should I see these? Does it operate just
like the profile, where when I log in it copies stuff to the local
machine? Or should the redirected my documents look more like a share,
since they should be on a server?

Tim

On Jun 9, 11:03 am, "Paul Bergson [MVP-DS]"



<pbergson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I wouldn't replicate off of the dc's, I would just keep on a single
member
server and take care of the size problem. Keep the profiles down to
megabytes (20 or less) and I bet things work out better.

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"TimParker" <tim...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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Yeah the goal is to have a single profile so that users aren't
"loosing" or "misplacing" files.

I think the size is a big culprit and I am focusing on that right now,
should I even worry about the replication between all the domain
controllers or just leave them all on the "main" DC in our main office
once the size and files are under control?

On Jun 9, 8:43 am, "Paul Bergson [MVP-DS]"

<pbergson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The TS profile is for users logging on to a TS session, which in your
case
doesn't sound like is what is being done so you should be able to
ignore
this.

What is the size of the users profile? The larger it gets the longer
it
will take to download and logon. Have you set the temp internet cache
to
clear on IE exit? Do users save data on their desktop? If so create a
folder shortcut to a network share.

I would get rid of the multiple location profile and work on reducing
the
overall size of the profile, that is probably what is causing you all
the
grief.

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MVP - Directory Services
MCTS, MCT, MCSE, MCSA, Security+, BS CSci
2008, 2003, 2000 (Early Achiever), NT4

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"TimParker" <tim...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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I have just started a new job and am still working through learning
the network set up and logic of some things. I ran across something
yesterday that I would like to throw out here to see if someone can
help me understand it.

This situation involves a company with 2 locations with a VPN
between
the two. Communications works but for some applications is a bit
slow
(not really the problem but I think it plays into what they did in a
way). We use romaing profiles as a handful of users work in both
offices.

Location 1 Main Office has 2 DC running win2k3 with a handful of
other
application servers
Location 2 Remote Office has 1 DC running win2k3 only other thing in
this location are users desktops.

For the users that work in both offices, login times were really
slow
going across the WAN/VPN so they came up with the idea to create
%username%2 accounts and put them in the remote OU (2 have currently
1
OU for the remote office and 3 or 4 that are for the main office.
The
user profile for each office was pointed at the local DC to them.
Either DC01 or DC04.

Naturally this caused a seperation in users files as they had them
across two different profiles. Well yesterday and I am finally
getting
to my question....I was working a user who was seeing different
drive
content for the same mapped letter, well I thought this was caused
by
what I just talked about above, but I found that she had a 3rd User
Profile directory called %username%TS (for terminal Services).

On the Terminal Services tab on her AD account it says to use this
profile for the account. What is the real point of using this tab?
Are
there benefits that I am just not seeing here? I see the user have
multiple profiles and "losing" files between the two profiles.

I am still working on a "fix" for our roaming profiles and having
one
copy between both locations and using replication to keep the
directories in sync. I have that part working am hitting a
permission
issue somewhere that I have to find, this TS issue is now adding to
my
misery. HELP! What am I missing??

TIA.

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