Re: Roaming Profiles



Thanks for the reply; it was a huge help.

Concerning the issue of Administrator access to profiles; the policy help
says that if the policy is enabled AFTER the profile is created it will have
no effect. Is there any way to change this and not mess up the users
access to the folder?

Also, it says that the change must be made at the workstation (client
computer). Are there actually places in Windows XP Pro to make such changes
to GP and does it have to be done at each client computer?

Again, thanks,

""Inn Jin [MSFT]"" <v-innjin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Bob,

Thank you for posting,

From the description, I understand you want to know what roaming profile
contains, and want to know where is the GP manager. If I am off base,
please don't hesitate to let me know.

For you first question, what is restored in a roaming profile?
=============
A user profile is a group of settings and files that defines the
environment that the system loads when a user logs on. It includes all the
user-specific configuration settings, such as program items, screen
colors,
network connections, printer connections, mouse settings, and window size
and position.

Roaming profile store twelve folders and files that you can see in My
Computer -> %systemroot% -> Documents and Settings -> yourusername,
including 7 hidden folders, they are:

a). User's documents
b). Cookies.
c). Desktop.
d). Favorites.
e). Start Menu.
f). Application Data.(hidden)
g). My Recent Documents. .(hidden)
h). NetHood. .(hidden)
i). PrintHood. .(hidden)
j). SentTo. .(hidden)
k). Templates. .(hidden)
l). ntuser.dat. (hidden)

In addition, by default, the following folders are kept from uploading to
the profile folder on the central (server) sharing which means when you
log
on to a different computer with the roaming profile, the contents in the
following folders will not be updated:

a) Local Settings;
b) Temporary Internet Files;
c) History;
d) Temp;
e) Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\ (which is the
default path for the Outlook OST files, that mean your users' outlook ost
files will not be included in roaming profile)

Your profile is very large, because you may have a lot of files in your
documents and desktop folder. I understand you have enable my documents
redirection, But just a copy of my documents been redirected to another
place for backup and security reason, you still have your documents in
your
roaming profiles.

More information:

User Profiles and Folder Redirection FAQ

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/en-us/management/manage_faq.mspx

Folder Redirection feature in Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/232692

For your second question, where to find GP manager:
===================
There are two ways to manage your group policy.

The first way is Click Start -> Administrative Tools -> Group Policy
Management to open GP manager. Unfold Forest: yourdomain.local -> Domains
-> yourdomain.local, you can see many Group Policy Object. Right click
Default Group Policy, and click edit¡­ to open Group Policy Object Editor,
then you can follow the KB to configure your group policy.

Second way is Click Start -> Server Management, In the Server Management
console, locate to Advanced Management -> Group Policy Management, the
rest
steps are just the same as the first way. You can find it yourself.

More information about Group Policy:

To know more about Group Policy

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/technologies/featured/gp/defa
ult.mspx

Create or delete a Group Policy object

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/Serve
rHelp/4f8dd800-e0e3-44a6-8a4a-d3d34b245fe7.mspx

Link a Group Policy object to a site, domain, or organizational unit

http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/f/?en/library/1ad2a3a3-b749-42b4
-b606-fc6f1079d0271033.mspx

Hope above information can help, if you have further concerns, please feel
free to let me know.

Have a nice day!

Best regards,

Inn Jin (MSFT)

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