New Environment Roaming Profiles with Pre-Existing Data
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Here's the situation:
Moving client from a Citrix VDI environment back to their own Local hardware. Doing away with citrix, going to use local and roaming profiles (it fits their needs). Normally, roaming profiles, folder redirection, etc is a pretty easy setup....From scratch.... But I've got all of their pre-existing data coming from the VDI environment....Bummer
So from the old environemnt, i'm getting a Profiles folder which contains AppData, Desktop, and MyDocuments (user created data) and a UPM folder which contains the appdata settings that load the user profiles.....
Other than manually logging in as each user, creating each profile folder, etc.... How can I position the folders to make them automatically populate their old data?
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I would highly recommend doing folder redirection only. Roaming Profiles is nothing but problems. If you do it via Folder Redirection you just copy the Data on to the Fileserver in the proper location and verify permissions. Roaming profiles would download all the data from the server to the local computer on first login (and the login is delayed until this is completed)
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Roaming Profiles seems like a good idea,.. sadly it has never worked for me either. Folder Redirect i easier, safer and generally faster.
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Well, i'm trying to setup UE-V. which is basically a combination of Roaming profiles and folder redirection. somethin like this https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj680025.aspx
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not a super complex environment. Most docs have laptops and desktops which they love switching between daily. Most users are static and they will have local profiles. Some users bounce between locations (2 geographic locations connected via IPSEC DC/file/cache server at remote location) Gonna use pertino for my home workers and docs who travel a lot.
They've only got a couple LOB applications, their EMR, time clock, etc. Just wanted something to help keep all the moving around of employees easier. I'd love to tell everyone to stay put at their own PC
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@Hubtech said:
Well, i'm trying to setup UE-V. which is basically a combination of Roaming profiles and folder redirection. somethin like this https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj680025.aspx
UE-V is really meant for VDI's and Terminal Servers
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@Hubtech said:
not a super complex environment. Most docs have laptops and desktops which they love switching between daily. Most users are static and they will have local profiles. Some users bounce between locations (2 geographic locations connected via IPSEC DC/file/cache server at remote location) Gonna use pertino for my home workers and docs who travel a lot.
They've only got a couple LOB applications, their EMR, time clock, etc. Just wanted something to help keep all the moving around of employees easier. I'd love to tell everyone to stay put at their own PC
It will become very complex with roaming profiles. They tend to break a lot. also using profiles between different versions of windows can create major problems and isn't recommended.
What do they need to move between computers that folder redirection and offline files can't do?
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nothing actually. folder redirection it is. no new tech for me today
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Folder Redirection provides all the same benefits as Roaming Profiles without the long login/logoff times due to the syncing. It's a much better approach. It'll also be easier to setup for you.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
Folder Redirection provides all the same benefits as Roaming Profiles
It's not the same. It is similar but it's only used for certain folders. Roaming profiles will do everything including AppData and the registry items.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
Folder Redirection provides all the same benefits as Roaming Profiles
It's not the same. It is similar but it's only used for certain folders. Roaming profiles will do everything including AppData and the registry items.
It was a generalization. He could probably setup folder redirection for documents, etc and then just use roaming profiles for the AppData, etc. The question is, moving away from Citrix, do people still need all that AppData info synced?
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OK, lots went on today, but i'll keep the Folder Redirection convo going in here. This is where I'm at.
Share looks like this \server\users$
Within each \users%username%\ there lives a Documents and Desktop folder
I've created a GPO named Folder Redirection, and setup Basic Redirect, etc, the folders aren't populating
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@Hubtech said:
OK, lots went on today, but i'll keep the Folder Redirection convo going in here. This is where I'm at.
Share looks like this \server\users$
Within each \users%username%\ there lives a Documents and Desktop folder
I've created a GPO named Folder Redirection, and setup Basic Redirect, etc, the folders aren't populating
Can you post your GP settings for it?
Also it could be permissions, if Group Policy creates the folder it sets the permission if you create them to populate files you have to set them.
