Re: Separate User Profiles per Locations

I've never tested this, but it should work, I believe.
Along the same lines, you can add the folder redirection settings
to the same 2 GPOs, redirecting them to the Londen and NY NAS
respectively:

User Configuration - Windows Settings - Folder Redirection
Application Data
Desktop
My Documents
Start Menu

But since these settings are User Configurations, you will also
need to use loopback processing of the GPO:

Computer Configuration - Administrative Templates - System - Group
Policy
"User Group Policy loopback processing mode" - "Replace"

which ensure that when a user logs on to a TS, the user settings
are taken from the GPO which is linked to the OU which contains the
TS account, not from the GPO which is linked to the OU containing
the user account. That should do what you want to achieve.

231287 - Loopback Processing of Group Policy
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=231287
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=?Utf-8?B?bG96emE=?= <lozza@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 01
feb 2008 in microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

Guys,

A theoretical based question.

If I have a single global AD domain and I have a TS Server in
London and NY, can I split configure this so when a user logs
onto the TS (london) his profile will be on a NAS device in the
London DC and the when the same user logs onto the TS (NY) his
profile will be located in the NY Datacentre.

If I put each TS into an OU of its own OU=London (for London TS)
and OU=NY (for NY TS) then:

I am thinking I could Apply a separate GPO to each TS OU for
location and set:

CC\Amin_Temp\Win_Com\Terminal Service\Set Path for TS Roaming
Profile

and for the London OU point it to \\London-NAS\TSProfiles and
for NY OU point it to \\NY-NAS\TSProfiles. Will this then
achieve what I want it to achieve?

I think the above will work....

My understanding however breaks down, when I want to also use
folder redirection for these profiles inorder to keep profiles
sizes to a minimum. How would I go about redirecting these
folders for each DC location? and is this typically how it is
done?

Many Thanks
Lozza
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