RE: TS User profiles location/moving

From: Stivie S. (stefan.suesser_at_computacenter.com)
Date: 03/24/04 

Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 07:36:09 -0800

Hi Sean,

you could create a profiles share, then enter a path to a user's profile share under "Terminal Services Profile" on the user object in Active Directory. The next time the user logs off from the Terminal Server, the local profile will get copied to the profiles share. The profiles share can reside on a different partition of the Terminal Server.
In additon, when you set a Policy to delete local copies of cached roaming profiles, the user profile will get copied to the profiles folder, then deleted under "C:\Documents and Settings".
If you are just interested in "My Documents", you can use Group Policy to implement "Folder Redirection" for this special folder.

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