Roaming Profile Best Practices

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Roaming Profile Best Practices

A lot of us use roaming profiles. There are difficulties associated with this, but once they are mitigated, roaming profiles can be a pretty useful feature. I've written an article which I hope helps you as you deal with potential issues.

http://geekswithblogs.net/HammerTips/archive/2008/05/28/roaming-profile-best-practices.aspx

Regards,

Tom Kretzmer

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Print posted @ Wednesday, May 28, 2008 3:44 PM

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# re: Roaming Profile Best Practices

i wanna learn more 12/4/2008 12:09 PM | subin

# re: Roaming Profile Best Practices

sir i had bit issue with roamingprofiles in our organization we have 200 workstations and a 2003 ent server all workstations access internet through wireless cards users login with their domain accounts but when ever a user logsin a messege displays unable to copy server copy related to roaming profile. In this i have denied access to local drives like C:,D:,E: by policy, is this effects roaming profiles to copy. For your information i had configured radius ,IAS,IIS to use wireless access to clients to log in into domain account using wireless

12/13/2008 2:18 AM | narasimha

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It sounds like you're creating problems yourself by trying to solve this issue instead of looking at why their is a problem in the first place. 9/15/2009 1:50 AM | buyusedcar

# re: Roaming Profile Best Practices

Roaming profiles seem to be a thing of the past. Yes I know there are still companies out there that use it but most seem to steer clear due to bandwidth. 2/16/2010 10:38 PM | love my shoes

# re: Roaming Profile Best Practices

Been using roaming profiles for years but now after having problems with Windows 7, think I may can them. 10/19/2010 3:59 PM | 3dtv

# re: Roaming Profile Best Practices

plz send me what is the banifit of user roming profile in win 2003
i am strucking
I have a user who tries to log on to the domain and gets the following message when i am taking ownership for user profile : Your roaming profile is not available. You are logged on with the locally stored profile. Changes to the profile will not be copied to the server. Possible causes of this error include network problems or insufficient security rights. 8/8/2011 10:55 AM | Ramjas

# re: Roaming Profile Best Practices

The benefit of using roaming profiles is that users may access their personal settings (desktop icons, registry settings, etc.) from multiple computers.

The problem described above is caused by you taking ownership of the directory. When you do that, the existing permissions are stripped and replaced with yourself having full control. So the solution is to update the permissions on the folder to allow the correct user to have read / write rights for that directory. Without access to write to the folder, Windows will create a temporary profile on the local computer.
1/5/2012 10:00 AM | Tom Kretzmer 1/5/2012 10:03 AM | Tom Kretzmer

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