Roaming profiles should only be used, when a user can indeed login and work at several workstations. They can be mostly problems rather than solutions; there are few suggestions, however, that could make roaming profiles management much easier:
1. Do not set too strict disk quotas for users with roaming profiles. Profiles tend to grow and the user can easily lose important information. Forcing users to cleanup their profiles is also a good practice, otherwise your domain conrtoller will end up transferring a lot of fiels not required for regular work.
2. Encrypted File System (EFS) is incompatible with roaming profiles. Do not store them on such a system.
3. Make sure users have only full control over their own roaming profiles. You can also use the trick of adding dollar sign to share name to make the share invisible to users browsing the network neighborhood.
4. Make sure the profiles are stored on NTFS-like filesystem. All its extended features are important to make roaming profiles work smoothly.
5. Offline Folder Caching should not be applied to roaming profile shared directories. The synchronization will most probably fail, leading to unpredictable results.
1. Do not set too strict disk quotas for users with roaming profiles. Profiles tend to grow and the user can easily lose important information. Forcing users to cleanup their profiles is also a good practice, otherwise your domain conrtoller will end up transferring a lot of fiels not required for regular work.
2. Encrypted File System (EFS) is incompatible with roaming profiles. Do not store them on such a system.
3. Make sure users have only full control over their own roaming profiles. You can also use the trick of adding dollar sign to share name to make the share invisible to users browsing the network neighborhood.
4. Make sure the profiles are stored on NTFS-like filesystem. All its extended features are important to make roaming profiles work smoothly.
5. Offline Folder Caching should not be applied to roaming profile shared directories. The synchronization will most probably fail, leading to unpredictable results.
