stop profile from sync'ing

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DC Gringo

I have 2 servers co-located through a VPN over the Internet that are also
domain member servers. I want to be able to log into these machines with my
domain user account, but my profile is a few hundred megabytes. It is
roaming, so this login forces the synchronization which I have to cancel
because it can take hours to sync. I continue to use the local
administrator user to avoid this.

I don't want to avoid it anymore and would like to find a way to login with
my domain user account but not have it look for any sync the server copy of
my roaming profile...but only on those two machines.

Any advice?

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DC G
 
Use folder redirection with your roaming profiles.
If you redirect My Documents and Application Data to a static network
location, your roaming profiles can simply point to those other locations
rather than copy the information to the local machine each time.

Chris.
 
DC Gringo said:
I have 2 servers co-located through a VPN over the Internet that are also
domain member servers. I want to be able to log into these machines with
my domain user account, but my profile is a few hundred megabytes. It is
roaming, so this login forces the synchronization which I have to cancel
because it can take hours to sync. I continue to use the local
administrator user to avoid this.

I don't want to avoid it anymore and would like to find a way to login
with my domain user account but not have it look for any sync the server
copy of my roaming profile...but only on those two machines.
Click to expand...

Once you've logged in once, you can go to the profile properties in Control
Panel | system on each, and set the option as Local, not Roaming.
Any advice?

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DC G
Click to expand...

OT, but I suggest you shrink your profile a LOT in general. I don't like
profiles larger than, say, 20 or 30 MB even on a fast Ethernet LAN
connection. Don't store items on the desktop, and use folder redirection to
point My Documents (and whatever you wish) at your home directory.
 
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