Re: Users Home Directory

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Hello!

I've been facing a similar problem , as I undertand the roaming profile is
the one that gets created into c:\documents and settings so if I set up the
GPO to delete the cached copies of roaming profiles I would't have more of
those c:\documents and settings\name_of_user folders, right?. Now as I have
redirected folders to a location in partition F:, I have
F:\tsusers\name_of_user.domain created at the same time also. My question is,
I need to customize the desktop and put some files into each TS user's "My
documents" folder, in the redirected one. The papers I've found say that you
have to create a dummy user and then log in as him , customize the desktop
and the "My documents" contents. Afterwards you log-off the summy user and
log in as administrator and copy the Dummy_user profile to "default user"
profile. This "default user" folder where the dummy_profile is intended to be
copied is located in C:\documents and settings\default user. (BTW i'm having
file-in-use restrictions problems for copying it). If the dummy_profile is
copied to C:, would the personalization of the Default User propagate to the
redirected F:\tsusers\name_of_user.domain folders?. How can I personalize at
the same time the about 130 desktops and "My documents" folders located in F:?

I 'd really appreciate any light you cand give me on this. (I'm not a TS
expert)

best regards

Alfredo

"Vera Noest [MVP]" wrote:

"moncho" <moncho990009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 15 feb 2006 in
microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:


"Jason" <Jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:09E78301-2465-42AD-82E9-BBAB42DDED92@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,
On my stand alone windows 2003 terminal server, when the users
are logged in, a folder is created for each user under
c:\documents and settings. When
the users copy some files to their desktop, then it is stored
in the C drive
which is small. I want to use the bigger E drive for all the
users. I found a
document(http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us
;8163139) and
I did according to that. Now what happens is, when a new user
logs on, a new
folder is created under c:\documents and settings as well as E
drive. I dont
what anything on the C drive. How to implement it? Pleae help.

This is by design. I am unable to remember at this moment but
there is a setting
that will delete the profile in C: after the user logs out.

You can google this group and find the answer or wait until
another user posts the answer. I believe someone answered this
question recently but I cannot recall the answer.

moncho

Use this setting in a Group Policy to get rid of the locally cached
copy of the roaming profile:

Computer Configuration - Administrative Templates - System - Logon
"Delete cached copies of roaming profiles"

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