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A Windows concept refering to allow a user to see their information and settings in differente computers saving the user profile in a network shared folder instead the local hard disk.

A roaming user profile is a concept in the Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems that allows a user with a computer joined to a Windows Server domain to log on to any computer on the same network and access their documents and have a consistent desktop experience, such as applications remembering toolbar positions and preferences, or the desktop appearance staying the same

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CentOS can I connect mobile and remotely from a laptop using another mobile connect to ssh or ssh -x?

Case: I placed one rack mounted server which has only intra-network activity (do not require any kind of internet access just for the service). Issues: But many times it requires remote access, in that case I need to drive from Belgium to Spain or…
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How do I turn off roaming profiles in Snow Leopard Server?

Good Morning, We are running Snow Leopard Server with Windows XP clients, we have about 10-12 user who logon with the same username and password, these users are telling us that they are seeing strange things as each of them log on and off, they…
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Roaming Profiles, Folder redirection or... both

I'm developing a remote desktop services in Windows Server 2008 R2. It's going on one server but in the future it's possible that another server could be added to the farm. I'm creating roaming profiles and folder redirection to save space. I have…
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How do I speed up load times on roaming profiles with Active Directory?

I've done some reading and apparently the main obstacle to fast remote profile syncing is that Samba takes a long time to transfer lots of little files like cookies. After reading Roaming Profiles: Best Practices , I plan to use Folder Redirection,…
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Profile initialization on second logon

Every user in my samba PDC network gets a default profile, created by copying over a local modified user profile to the netlogon share. Now when they first logon there is no problem. But on the second logon Windows 7 spontaneously decides to…
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Logging internet usage in Server 2008?

We are running Windows Server 2008, with each client connecting to the internet through a Draytek router. Each client is setup with OpenDNS which blocks most websites. There are a few limitations to OpenDNS blocking in terms of the sites the staff…
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Server 2008 R2 + Remote Desktop Services cached roaming profiles not being deleted on logoff

I've been having an issue for a few weeks now with certain roaming profiles not being deleted from my Remote Desktop Services host server when a user logs off. The issue seems to be only related to a couple of users at this point, but I'm worried…
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Local Settings in Windows 7 Roaming Profiles

We're planning a migration of several hundred desktops to Windows 7 and hitting a snag in our test lab with roaming profiles. Bit of background: Win 2003 FFL Currently all XP machines Roaming profiles, working fine Win7 test PCs are in Computer…
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How to use network fileshare as user's home, and not roaming profiles

Some of my users are very frustrated, because their login/logout times are reaching into the minute ranges. We have a few shift workers using the same machine, and invariably, the second shift has to sit around for literally 5-10 minutes while the…
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How can I make sure a user's roaming profile is being updated appropriately?

First I would like to say thank you all who answered my last question. So now I have another... I have a user who is using Windows XP Pro on a Windows Server 2003 network. He is experiencing three problems: Windows lags at the loading profiles…
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Can I control what data gets saved with a user's roaming profile?

I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine running a small corporate domain. User profiles are stored to a drive array on the server and I'm noticing that the user profiles are very large in some cases ( > 15Gb). The primary culprit is each users's…
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Untrusted Location

I've recently switched to roaming profiles in an XP and Windows 7 environment and also changed the login script. Can anyone tell me where I would find the info regarding messages that appear when people are launching various in-house apps : This…
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Roaming profile is not loaded when user's password expires and is changed

Our password policy makes users change pw every 30 days, when this happens they sometimes find they are logged on with a local profile and none of their settings. This generally only happens when the PC was slow at logging onto the network, but in…
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Exclude client from sync with roaming profile?

is it possible to exclude one machine from syncing its profile with the server? The situation is as follows: Our CEO wants to use her semi-private laptop in our network, which means she wants to be able to log in with her account (to be able to…
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Prevent Roaming profiles from syncing certain elements

I'm somewhat new to the Server 2008 front, and I'm afraid I've hit my first snag: I've set up roaming profiles, and they appear to be working too well. Is there a way to limit, ideally on a folder/object basis, what gets synced with a roaming…
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