Filtered articles: "Folder Redirection"

Filtered articles: "Folder Redirection"

Permissions on redirected folders - Use the scripting force

One of Profile Migrator’s new features in version 2.3 is the new licensing model for service providers and integrators. Coincidentally one of those recently reported an issue with Profile Migrator and redirected folders. During his tests the service provider relocated redirected folders while migrating profiles from Server 2003 to Server 2008. Unfortunately after logging on migrated users received an error message telling them that they had no access to their redirected data. So what happened?

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Updated: User Profiles Whitepaper

I have just released an updated version of the whitepaper about user profiles. In addition to a general overview of user profile and the challenges involved in managing them, it now includes a section about profile migration.

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Should AppData be Redirected or Left in the User Profile?
Published by Helge Klein on 05/31/2010 | 16 Comments | 14,474 Views

Redirecting AppData from the user profile to a folder on the network may significantly improve logon speed. Is enabling AppData redirection a no-brainer, then? Not really, because it often comes at a price: performance.

Aaron Parker brought this topic to my attention when he tweeted: "I really wish ppl would stop redirecting AppData. It's bad news". As he added later, he was referring to performance.

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User Profile Design: A Primer
Published by Helge Klein on 01/14/2009 | 2 Comments | 8,981 Views

This article tries list the dos and don’ts that need to be considered when creating a user profile design. It focuses on functionality built into Windows. Third-party solutions that replace or complement the operating system's capabilities will be the topic of future articles.

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How to Reduce the Size of Roaming Profiles
Published by Helge Klein on 11/17/2008 | 4 Comments | 44,217 Views

Roaming user profiles tend to grow over time, which is sometimes referred to as profile bloat. In and by itself, profile growth is not a problem. Users of desktop PCs who log on the the same machine every day will not even notice that they have huge profiles ready to follow them around the network. Their locally cached copy of the roaming profile is always current. No need to fetch anything from a file server during logon.

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