Re: Roaming Profiles

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From: "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" <lanwench@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 13:05:09 -0500

Lee B. wrote:
> I have several roaming profiles on my SBS 2003 server. They are
> taking up alot of space on my boot drive. and I would like to move
> them. How can I move these to another physical drive so the end
> users can still connect without any problems? All of the profiles
> are in a single folder, please help with best practices on moving
> this folder to another physical drive so that I can free up the space
> on my boot drive.
> Thanks

Make sure all users are logged out, and then move the folder where you wish.
Unshare it first, then re-share it with the same share name (& make sure to
reset the share permissions so everyone has full control) - also make sure
the NTFS permissions don't change.

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