Re: Domain Trusts and synch of roaming profiles
- From: "Anthony" <anthony.spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:34:35 -0000
I understand but I don't think your solution is an answer. You could achieve
the same effect by giving them a separate logon in the same domain. But it
just should not be necessary.
You can add a second DC to the same domain at branch 2. Then if you still
want, you can replicate the profile folder using DFS Replication. You would
set up the profile path to be \\dfsProfiles\%username%, so whichever site
they log in they will pick up the nearest profiles.
Hope that helps,
Anthony, http://www.airdesk.com
"pete0085" <pete0085@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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THe problem is not the size of the profiles typicially, it's logging in
across the WAN and when I'm at branch 2 in takes me 5 minutes to log on
and
the main branch it takes a few seconds.
I've tried redirecting folders, it increases the logon times, but has a
negative side affect. Outlook, word, etc is very slow and will lock up
due
to accessing resources back over the WAN.
We are wondering if you add a second DC at that location, can they log on
to
that domain controller instead of logging in over the WAN and with the two
profiles synchronize at night so when they log on back to the main branch,
all their info will be there.
Do you understand what we are trying to accomplish?
"Anthony" wrote:
Pete,
I can't think of any reason for a second domain rather than another DC in
the same domain.
You can keep the roaming profiles small by redirecting folders out of it.
You can avoid a slow logon by setting the "slow network detection" speed
in
Group Policy.
Roaming profile replication should be OK with DFS Replication in R2, as
long
as the profile is relatively small and there is time to replicate:
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/f9b98a0f-c1ae-4a9f-9724-80c679596e6b1033.mspx?mfr=true.
Hope that helps,
Anthony, http://www.airdesk.com
"pete0085" <pete0085@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Can we add a 2nd domain controller in Branch 2 (branch2.mycompany.com)
so
that the users there would login to that domain instead of logging into
the
domain across the WAN? With a lot of staff moving between branch 1 and
branch 2, could we synchronize the roaming profiles from the User
Profile
folders between the 2 domain controllers so they would still have the
same
desktop and settings if they logged on to the Branch1 Domain or the
Branch2
domain.
If we added a DC in branch 3 too, could we synchronize roaming profiles
between the three?
I think we would somehow need to replicate all the user accounts and
groups
to the new DC, because of all of the permissions that are already
assigned
to
shares, email etc.
How would this affect users outlook running exchange 2003?
The problem we have are users logging in across the WAN to the main DC
with
roaming profiles and login times taking 5, 10, 20 minutes long in some
cases.
Is setting up something like this possible and how about for shared
folders?
.
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