Re: Local Settings Folder within Roaming Profiles

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Lanwench,

I like your thorough answering style, thanks man! :) So the final question
for me would be if this is local to every machine, as implied by the name of
the folder, then... what kind of real world application stuff is stored here?
any examples would be great. And also would this cause problems for roaming
users, i.e they set up a kind of application environment on one server, and
then when they log onto other (via Load balanced approach) servers, these
settings stored in Local Settings will all be lost, aren;t application
settings the important thing here when we talk about roaming profiles? I
guess i'm really confused as what this folder is actually used for...

Thanks much...
Lozza

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

lozza <lozza@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hey Guys,

My dev setup: 2x TS Servers hooked into Session Directory. Load
Balancing achieved via DNS Round Robin.

Roaming User profiles being
used

Do not use roaming profile paths for your TS users - you need to specify a
different Terminal Services profile path. You can keep your folder
redirection the same, but you have to use an entirely different folder tree
for roaming profiles. E.g.,

Regular roaming profiles: \\server\profiles%
TS profiles: \\server\tsprofiles$

and pointed to NAS device. Profile is stored on
\\NAS\Profile\%UsernameOfEachUser%

My Issue: I;ve been told to limit profiles to a max of 40MB.
Desktop/Start Menu/Application Data/My Documents all redirected to
their own folder on the NAS. i.e.
\\NAS\RedirectedMyDocuments\%username%,
\\NAS\RedirectedDesktop\%username%,
\\NAS\RedirectedStartMenu\%username%,
\\NAS\RedirectedApplicationData\%username%.... This I believe
prevents the size of these folder counting towards the profile size
as these folder are not redirected to the Roaming Profile Path...So,
First Question, Is my understanding correct here?

Yes.



So, one folder that is starting to take space is the Local Setting
Folder on each user user profile. My own profile (which is one of the
smaller ones) for example has:

C:\Documents and Settings\lozza\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client\Cache there is a file called
bcache22.bmc and this itself is 22MB

Not sure what this file is for or how it can be cleared down... any
ideas would be great? other users have varying sizes upto 100MB under
other folders located under Local Settings... Okay, so you say, but
this folder by default does not roam with the user

Of course. It's "local settings."

or in turn other
folders can also be excluded from the roaming profile... that fine
with me, but also confusing:

So, if this is the case... When a user logs off does this folder
(Local Settings) stay on the local machine?

Yes.

(i.e. the directory
structure on the machine will still remain C:\Documents and
Settings\lozza\Local Settings\Application Data\...\...\...\). What
happens if cached copies of profiles are set to delete,

Then the local settings folder data is gone.

is this
folder rebuild everytime the user logs on and any application related
settings are therefore lost?

Yep.

if it does stay on the local machine,
what if the next time a user comes into the cluster and they are
directed to the other server, will not having this folder as roaming
and excluded from the profile, cause user settings to not come
over...

A new one will be created.

Just trying to understand what i;m getting myself in for here...
before I go starting to make changes... I hope this makes sense...

Lozza




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