Can I do this

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Jonathan Koppel

Hello all:

I have a question regarding Windows 2000 networks.

Can the following be set up?

User logs on to the network, and receives the network stored profile,
which, if necessary, updates the locally stored profile. As the user
works, any changes or updates occur locally, desktop, my documents, etc.

The end of the day rolls around and the user logs off. All changed data
from the local profile is sent from the local profile to the network
stored profile, and the process is repeated the next day.


I have been unable to find anything about this on the Microsoft web site.

Thanks for any assistance you might provide.

Jonathan
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....in addition, note that if you have a 300MB profile folder you will be
very unhappy - hence the decision most admins I know make, which is to
redirect My Documents to the user's home directory on the server. ;-)
 
Hi.
With this reply I'm assuming a couple of things... If
this is not what you had wanted, sorry.

a.) If you would like the profile to be updated on the
server after each use then all you need to do is go into
Active Directory Users and Computers > Go to a user,
select profile path and type the address of the profile
you would like the user to use.

b.) If you would like the server profile to remain the
same after a days use and then the user starts from
scratch again the next day you have two options. Using
Mandatory profiles, or using Policies. People have been
recommending Policies the last couple of months but it
depends on your preferrence I guess. If you choose to use
a Mandotory profile, rename the ntuser.dat file to
ntuser.man for the profile the user will use. They can
change whatever they want during the day, eg. wallpaper
and when they log on the next day it will be back to
normal.

Policies however for both a.) & b.) can be used so that
the user can or cannot change the settings to the profile
at run time. Settings can either be set to allow these
changes or not.

Hope this helps,

Brian Lockwood
MCSE~
 
...in addition, note that if you have a 300MB profile folder you will be
very unhappy - hence the decision most admins I know make, which is to
redirect My Documents to the user's home directory on the server. ;-)
Click to expand...

Good point which is part of the reason that Microsoft split up
the (concept) of the "Home Directory" when they substituted
"My Documents" -- you can SEPARATELY direct many of
the "child folders" to different local or remote locations.

My Pictures, Application Data (almost always better left local),
Desktop, and even "My Documents" itself can be taken out
or separated from the main profile.

See Group Policy.
 
Yes, this is how I'm configured, and how it's working...my question is,
why do changes not get saved to the locally stored copy of the roaming
profile?
 
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