A roaming-user profile is stored on a Windows Server based computer and is loaded on to the client workstation when the user logs on.
This profile defines the Windows environment, and includes all user-specific settings such as program items, screen colors, and network and printer connections. When the user logs off the computer, the profile is copied to the server computer. You can use a policy to prevent certain folders from being copied to the server when the user logs off the client computer.
To create a new GPO:. In the console tree, right-click your domain, and then click Properties. Click the Group Policy tab, and then click New. Click the policy you just created, click Properties , and then click the Security tab. Click to clear the Apply Group Policy check box for the security groups that you want to prevent from having this policy applied. Add the security principal user or group that you want the policy to apply to, click Read , and then click Apply Group Policy.
In the Setting list, double-click Exclude directories in roaming profile , and then click Enabled. In the Prevent the following directories from roaming with the profile box, type the appropriate folder names, separated by semicolons ;.
This is considered as the "root" folder of the profile, and is not included when you specify folders to exclude. For example, to prevent the desktop from roaming with the profile, type desktop in the Prevent the following directories from roaming with the profile box.
Make sure that a semicolon separates each entry in the list. Client computers must run Windows 10, Windows 8. To use primary computer support in Roaming User Profiles, there are additional client computer and Active Directory schema requirements. As a workaround, you can specify a Start layout as described in this topic. If you decide to use Roaming User Profiles across multiple versions of Windows, we recommend taking the following actions:.
If you are deploying Roaming User Profiles on computers running Windows 8. These changes help ensure that future operating system upgrades go smoothly, and facilitate the ability to simultaneously run multiple versions of Windows with Roaming User Profiles. Download and install the appropriate software update on all computers on which you're going to use roaming, mandatory, super-mandatory, or domain default profiles:.
On all computers running Windows 8. Incorrectly editing the registry may severely damage your system. Before making changes to the registry, you should back up any valued data on the computer.
Active Directory Administration Center appears. Right-click the appropriate domain or OU, select New , and then select Group. In the Create Group window, in the Group section, specify the following settings:. In the Members section, select Add. If you want to include computer accounts in the security group, select Object Types , select the Computers check box and then select OK.
If you do not already have a separate file share for roaming user profiles independent from any shares for redirected folders to prevent inadvertent caching of the roaming profile folder , use the following procedure to create a file share on a server running Windows Server.
Some functionality might differ or be unavailable depending on the version of Windows Server you're using. In the Shares tile, select Tasks , and then select New Share. The New Share Wizard appears. On the Share Location page, select the server and volume on which you want to create the share. This hides the share from casual browsers. On the Other Settings page, clear the Enable continuous availability checkbox, if present, and optionally select the Enable access-based enumeration and Encrypt data access checkboxes.
On the Permissions page, select Customize permissions…. The Advanced Security Settings dialog box appears. Select Disable inheritance , and then select Convert inherited permissions into explicit permission on this object.
Set the permissions as described in Required permissions for the file share hosting roaming user profiles and shown in the following screen shot, removing permissions for unlisted groups and accounts, and adding special permissions to the Roaming User Profiles Users and Computers group that you created in Step 1. If you chose the SMB Share - Advanced profile, on the Quota page, optionally select a quota to apply to users of the share.
This GPO allows you to configure Roaming User Profiles settings such as primary computer support, which is discussed separately , and can also be used to enable Roaming User Profiles on computers, as is typically done when deploying in virtualized desktop environments or with Remote Desktop Services. From the Tools menu select Group Policy Management. Group Policy Management appears. This prevents the GPO from being applied until you finish configuring it.
Select the GPO. This step is necessary due to security changes made in MS If you are deploying Roaming User Profiles to user accounts, use the following procedure to specify roaming user profiles for user accounts in Active Directory Domain Services. If you are deploying Roaming User Profiles to computers, as is typically done for Remote Desktop Services or virtualized desktop deployments, instead use the procedure documented in Step 6: Optionally set up Roaming User Profiles on computers.
If you set up Roaming User Profiles on user accounts by using Active Directory and on computers by using Group Policy, the computer-based policy setting takes precedence. Select all users to which you want to assign a roaming user profile, right-click the users and then select Properties. For example:. To specify a mandatory roaming user profile, specify the path to the NTuser. For more information, see Create mandatory user profiles. However, when using a special profile, apps are not deployed by default.
However, deployed apps in this scenario will leave some data stored on the computer, which could accumulate, for example, if there are hundreds of users of a single computer. The System Properties dialog box appears. Click Advanced tab , and then click Settings under User Profiles section, as shown below:. Click the temporary user profile that you had created and then click Copy To , as shown in the Figure below:. Next, The Copy To dialog box appears, a shown below.
Type the network path of the Profile folder in the Copy Profile To field. A folder with the temporary user name will be created automatically under the Profiles folder.
Click OK four times on all the windows that you have opened recently. Open Administrative Tools in the Control Panel and then click Computer Management , as shown in the second screenshot in this article. Click Users folder under Local Users and Groups node, as shown below:. The Properties window for the user account appears as shown in the figure below. Click the Profile tab and then type the path of Profile folder that you had created on a network server in the Profile path field:.
Click OK and then quit the Computer Management snap-in. This completes the process of creating a roaming user profile. Usually when there are a few roaming profiles enabled in a domain then the login and log off become extremely slow. This happens mostly when roaming users save large files on their computers. Each time a logs off or logs on to a different computer the large files take long time to save on the network and recover from the network.
The solution to this problem is to use Folder Redirection along with roaming user profiles. The Folder redirection feature allows you to redirect folders such as Application Data, Desktop, My Documents, and Start Menu to a different network location.
These folders are typically used to save the large files. These folders will only be touched by Windows when a user actually tries to open a file from them. Another solution to control the growing size user profiles is to create Mandatory User Profiles for the users. However, you can use such profiles when you want to provide identical desktop configurations to all the roaming users. When mandatory user profiles are configured for the users, the users are not allowed to change their profile settings and thus the profiles size always remain manageable.
To make a roaming user profile mandatory, you need to rename the Ntuser. Roaming user profiles are simply collections of settings and configurations that are stored on a network location for each user. Once you perform some fairly simple configurations, every time a user logs on to a machine in your domain with his domain credentials, that user's settings will follow him and automatically be applied to his log-on session for that particular machine.
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