Re: Roaming profiles: please share your experience
- From: "Frankster" <Frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 09:02:46 -0700
Personal experience...
Use roaming profiles only if there is an actual benefit to users. Otherwise,
don't.
Use roaming profiles only if all PCs use the same (exact same) OS and set of
applications.
Use roaming profiles only if all applications on all PCs are loaded on the
same lettered hard drive (not when some PC have an app loaded on C while
others have the same app loaded on D).
Use roaming profiles only if you lock down PCs to prevent users from using
their own photos and such as their windows background.
Use roaming profiles only if some users do not use things like iPOD
connections, Palm Pilot or PDA device "syncing". If everybody uses all the
exact same devices, no problem.
Use roaming profiles only if everyone accesses their mail from the same
server using the same mail application.
Use roaming profiles only if you are prepared to deal with backup/restore of
profiles on a regular bases. (users will become accustomed to always having
"their" icons to click on and will be lost without them)
As for... What is a user benefit? Example: If users often have need to log
onto workstations other than their own and have access to their personally
configured mapped drives, and desktop icons. And their personally configured
mail (as in Outlook server and password config.).
Don't fall into the trap of thinking roaming is always better just because
you can afford the bandwidth. And... yes, you will notice substantial "slow
downs" during logon and logoff times it everybody comes and goes as the
exact same time. Most times this is not an issue due to somewhat staggered
logon/logoff times (even by a minute or so).
Do not think from the above statements that I am against roaming profiles. I
worked in an organization using roaming profiles where we had a 2000+
PC/User base, and it was great. But I need to tell you that every PC was
cloned, exactly like every other PC. Under these conditions, it's great. As
soon as you deviate from the above, the pittfalls start to outweigh the
advantages.
-Frank
"Roman" <Roman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:39A8D2A2-0BEB-4739-B163-E37C8F371834@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi all,
Sorry if this is the wrong newsgroup to ask.
I am planning to deploy roaming profiles in our LAN for approx. 50 users.
The network is 100mbps. The hardware where all profiles planned to be
stored
is Xeon 2x3.2Ghz, 1GB RAM, SCSI 15k rpm, 100MB NIC. I have read about tips
and tricks concerning roaming profiles (what to store and what to do to
make
things work faster) but I really appreciate if you could share your
experience in case you have roaming profiles implemented. The question is:
how fast it is, especially during login/logout time? I checked current
network utilization and it is around 2-5mbps so I think there is enough
space. I understand that the highest load will take place during the time
user logs in first time, but how fast it is in general when 20-40 users
simultaneously log out? Of course it depends on amount of information to
synchronize but what are your personal observations?
Thank you very much in advance!
.
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