Slow Logon and Large Profile

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Jeffrey Walton

Hi All,

The slow logon problem does not appear to be DNS related.

An entire 1 GB profile is being copied locally (verified by looking at the
size of C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%).

How can I keep Windows from copying the entire profile to the local machine?
The 'My Documents' on the local machine is redirected to a network drive
mapped as P:\ (P for personal).

Why is the 'My Documents' folder being copied to the local machine? This is
why we redirected in the first place - we did not want the copy.

Thanks,
Jeff
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Jeffrey Walton said:
Hi All,

The slow logon problem does not appear to be DNS related.

An entire 1 GB profile is being copied locally (verified by looking
at the size of C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%).

How can I keep Windows from copying the entire profile to the local
machine? The 'My Documents' on the local machine is redirected to a
network drive mapped as P:\ (P for personal).

Why is the 'My Documents' folder being copied to the local machine?
This is why we redirected in the first place - we did not want the
copy.

Thanks,
Jeff
(e-mail address removed)
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How did you set it up in the GPO? It shouldn't be copying anything over. Are
you using roaming profiles in conjunction with redirection? This would be
the default behavior if using both. If you use only redirection without
roaming profiles, then you shouldn't be experiencing this.

Snippet below from:
Step-by-Step Guide to User Data and User Settings:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/planning/management/userdata.asp

"Folder redirection can be used with all types of user profile; local,
roaming or mandatory. Using folder redirection with local profiles can
provide some of the benefits of roaming profiles (having your data available
from any machine, data maintained on the server etc.) without the need to
implement roaming profiles. Remember though, using folder redirection with a
local profile would only result in the users documents being available from
all machines - to have settings and configuration move with the user, you
would need to use roaming profiles."

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"Ace Fekay [MVP]"
In Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> made a post then I commented below

How did you set it up in the GPO? It shouldn't be copying anything over. Are
you using roaming profiles in conjunction with redirection? This would be
the default behavior if using both. If you use only redirection without
roaming profiles, then you shouldn't be experiencing this.

Snippet below from:
Step-by-Step Guide to User Data and User Settings:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/planning/management/userdata.asp

"Folder redirection can be used with all types of user profile; local,
roaming or mandatory. Using folder redirection with local profiles can
provide some of the benefits of roaming profiles (having your data available
from any machine, data maintained on the server etc.) without the need to
implement roaming profiles. Remember though, using folder redirection with a
local profile would only result in the users documents being available from
all machines - to have settings and configuration move with the user, you
would need to use roaming profiles."
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Hi Ace,

Profile is roaming.

Profile Properties ('Profile Tab' of the Account in ADUC ) are as follows:
Profile Path: '\\EUCLID\DATA$\%USERNAME%'
Home Folder Connect: P -> '\\EUCLID\DATA$\%USERNAME%\My Documents'

GPO (User Settings -> Windows Settings -> Folder Redirection)
is set as follows:
Basic Redirect - Redirect everyone to the same location.
Create a folder for each user under root path.
Root path is '\\EUCLID\DATA$'

With the above setting, the snap-in states user 'jeffrey' will
redirect to '\\EUCLID\DATA$\jeffrey\My Documents'

On a workstation, Right Clicking 'My Documents' shows its target is
'\\EUCLID\DATA$\jeffrey\My Documents'

I still don't know why copying of 'My Documents' is occuring...

Thanks,
Jeff
 
Hi Ace,
How did you set it up in the GPO? It shouldn't be copying anything over. Are
you using roaming profiles in conjunction with redirection? This would be
the default behavior if using both.
Click to expand...

That was it. Thanks. I stopped using Redirection, kept the Roaming Profile.

Jeff

"Ace Fekay [MVP]"
 
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Jeffrey Walton said:
Hi Ace,


That was it. Thanks. I stopped using Redirection, kept the Roaming
Profile.

Jeff
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It sounds like Roaming Profiles would cause this, not redirection. Roaming
Profiles copy the data to your machine, where redirection points your
machine to the data. But you;re saying Roaming profiles don't copy it over?
Maybe because its already copied over?



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Regards,
Ace

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so all can benefit.

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and confers no rights.

Ace Fekay, MCSE 2003 & 2000, MCSA 2003 & 2000, MCSE+I, MCT, MVP
Microsoft Windows MVP - Windows Server - Directory Services

Security Is Like An Onion, It Has Layers
HAM AND EGGS: A day's work for a chicken;
A lifetime commitment for a pig.
 
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