Re: Roaming profiles on Windows server 2003 AD

If you don't redirect Application Data folder how do they get all their
settings at the computer they roam to. In the Application data folder is
stuff like Outlook settings such as signatures etc. I thought it was
important to make sure the Application data folder was included as it is
where most of the computer application settings are stored or am I wrong
about this folder.
thanks
--
Kath


"Anthony" wrote:

Kath,
There's a notice on the AutoCad website about using AutoCad with roaming
profiles. You can configure the path to the AutoCad profile with a parameter
at startup.
Maybe also you don't need to redirect Application Data, just leave it in the
profile. Redirecting and Roaming are two different things, not necessarily
connected. You would usually redirect My Documents, but not necessarily
Application Data or Desktop.
Anthony -
http://www.airdesk.co.uk


"Kaddie" <kathied@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx(donotspam)> wrote in message
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thanks for the info. With Roaming Profiles the Autocad program would not
work. Within the program itself it has some sort of User profiles and
they
failed. I backed the users out of the Roaming Profile policy and they
still
had to reinstall the Autocad program to get it to work again. We have had
a
similar issue with a program called CivilCad. These are both design
drawing
programs.
Thats why I wanted to know how to exclude users from a Roaming profile
policy since management wants us to have roaming profiles on our entire OU
structure it makes it a bit hard. Your suggestion should help nicely.

--
Kath


"Anthony" wrote:

Kath,
If you want to exclude a few people from a general policy, you can create
a
security group for them and then Deny them access to the policy. You do
this
in the Security tab of the policy.
It is best to limit the use of Denies, as they can get difficult to
troubleshoot, but if you have a policy you want to apply to everyone
except
a specific group, then this is the easiest way.
What exact problem are you having with AutoCad? You may find there is a
better solution for the specific problem,
Anthony
http://www.airdesk.co.uk




"Kaddie" <kathied@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx(donotspam)> wrote in message
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Hi,
We got a request from a director to give everyone in our org a roaming
profile. About 500 users. Some on a slow network link that we dont
want
to
roam. We are assigning the Roaming Profiles via OU's. We use a GPO
that
does folder redirection. This is placed on each of the OU's with each
users
properties/profile tab has the Profile path set to the location on the
network where the profile is stored. So this does 2 things creates a
folder
for each user called user data and user profiles.

The user data folder stores application data and desktop. The user
profile
folder stores all the roaming stuff like folders, deskop as per how
roaming
profiles work.A specialist technical company came in and set this up
for
us.

Our HUGE issue is that since implimenting the Roaming profiles loads of
applications no longer work such as Autocad style programs.
Ive created a temp OU and removed anyone who cannot have a roaming
profile
into it so they dont get the GPO and removed the profile path from
user.
Anyway this is messing up our AD Structure. Can someone point me to
information/articles on how to have all users in say the Engineering OU
that
has the folder redirection policy applied to it. But if someone in the
Engineering OU cannot have a roaming profile how do I turn of the
Folder
redirection without moving them to the temp OU. I have heard
somewhere
that
users can all be in the same OU with a GPO applied but exclude some of
the
users from the GPO somehow. Is this a loopback or something. Sorry
this
was
longwinded but hard to explain
thanks
--
Kath






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