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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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Server 2008 Roaming Profiles and Chrome userdata

Firstly, this Server 2008 box has taken over from a server 2003 PDC several months ago and I can't quite say for certain that everything has transitioned correctly. The domain functionality has been raised to 2008 r2 and netdom query shows the 2008…
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Logging in with Roaming Profile taking a long time

Sorry in advance if this is a bit of a newbie question, I'm new to this concept and I do not have control over the network setup and have little knowledge regarding network configuration. I have a roaming profile which takes between 10 and 30…
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Roaming Profiles & Redirected Folders - storage consumption? offline files and caching?

I understand the concepts of both roaming profiles and folder redirection and have used both separately before. I am about to set up a network from scratch and would ideally like to use both for the following reasons primarily Roaming profiles…
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Remote Desktop Services roaming profile leaving local copy after logoff

I have a Windows 2008 Remote Desktop Server and a GPO redirecting Remote Desktop Services profiles to a netapp share. This works with one caveat. I am getting a local profile written as well as the roaming profile. An actual full local profile, not…
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Add permissions for a usergroup to all domainprofiles (roaming profiles) on server 2008 R2

This is our current situation: We have an active directory with Server 2008 R2 and roaming profiles which is currently in use (old server), and we have a new Server 2008 R2. We already set up a new AD on the new server and only want to copy the…
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How Do I separate Windows 7 Roaming Profiles from Remote Desktop Services Profiles?

I have over one hundred users that have Windows 7 roaming profiles on a couple of Windows 2008 R3 servers. I have implemented a GPO for folder redirection for their Home directory (My Documents) and folder redirection for their Music, Downloads,…
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Windows 7 (roaming profiles) not seeing printers deployed with printer management?

I've got a network with about 15-20 printers deployed using printer management that is setup on a Win 2008 server. All the users have roaming profiles. All the XP machines get all the printers without issue and the users can print to them all…
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Configuring roaming profiles

Running a DC (Windows Server 2008 R2) with Windows 7 Clients. I have configured the roaming profiles (I believe), however once while logging in, the account logs in with a TEMP profile. Can someone clarify the correct configuration for roaming…
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Turning off Offline Files & Folders for a roaming profile share

Here at work we have roaming profiles on one share, and redirected folders on another share. When we configured these shares we did not know that you shouldn't enable the option ""All files and programs that users open from the share will be…
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Disabling roaming profiles on a single server in a network

I want to disable the roaming profiles on a single server which is used as a terminal and RemoteApp server. This option should be applied to all users in the active directory.
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Restore files from a recycle bin, that is located on a server store of a roaming profile

An organization has a domain and all users have a roaming profiles. A user deletes files from My Documents, and they appear to be in the recycle bin on the server's user profile store. How can admin access and restore those files? A particular…
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VERY slow startup in a Windows Domain, why is this?

I recently joined a Windows 7 computer to a domain. There is one Computer Policy configured: the use of roaming profiles. From the moment I restarted the client, I could stare for hours at the "Starting Windows" title with the nice colors of the…
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Roaming Profiles inheriting IE esc and other IE security settings from TS 2008 R2 server

I've recently set up a terminal server for remote access purposes, I'm using roaming profiles for all users as all clients use W7. I'm seeing some strange behaviour when they log on to the server though: Currently their IE settings are not at all…
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How to make Windows roaming profile with Linux

I have 2 labs with 20 computers each of them. All the computers are running Windows XP Pro and the user profile is loaded from a SunOS system (Solaris 8). No matter which PC the user will use, he just enters his user and pass and the profile is…
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Minimum required NTFS permissions for roaming profiles

A earlier question links to this Microsoft document about roaming profile permissions. I want to know if you can lock the permissions down even further then what is recommended. Do I really have to give users full control? A couple comments in…
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