roaming profile changes

[George]

hello,
i am currently using thin clients and have the users to use TS in order to
connect on two win 2003 servers(act as load balancing and fail safe mode) and
have configured the specific accounts to be roaming profiles and their files
are under a file server. My question is: when a user is logged in under
server1 and creates a new file, while he creates thye file, server 1 goes
down unexpectetly and the user will be transfered to server 2 which acts as
fail over, the newly created file will be there or is it gone?
thank you in advance

 

[Jeff Pitsch]

Re: roaming profile changes

If it's a crash and not a proper logout then the answer is no. Profiles are
always created and run locally on the server/workstation. When the user
logs out, the profile is then copied to the file server. The roaming
profile location is simply a storage area for the profile, it is not where
the profile is actually run from.

Jeff Pitsch
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Services

"George" <George@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3C37FBC4-6335-42E0-B444-1753B05C6486@microsoft.com...
> hello,
> i am currently using thin clients and have the users to use TS in order to
> connect on two win 2003 servers(act as load balancing and fail safe mode)
> and
> have configured the specific accounts to be roaming profiles and their
> files
> are under a file server. My question is: when a user is logged in under
> server1 and creates a new file, while he creates thye file, server 1 goes
> down unexpectetly and the user will be transfered to server 2 which acts
> as
> fail over, the newly created file will be there or is it gone?
> thank you in advance

 

[jolteroli]

Re: roaming profile changes

"Jeff Pitsch" <jeff@jeffpitschconsulting.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:eeON07a5IHA.4448@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> If it's a crash and not a proper logout then the answer is no. Profiles
> are always created and run locally on the server/workstation. When the
> user logs out, the profile is then copied to the file server. The roaming
> profile location is simply a storage area for the profile, it is not where
> the profile is actually run from.
>
> Jeff Pitsch
> Microsoft MVP - Terminal Services
>
> "George" <George@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3C37FBC4-6335-42E0-B444-1753B05C6486@microsoft.com...
>> hello,
>> i am currently using thin clients and have the users to use TS in order
>> to
>> connect on two win 2003 servers(act as load balancing and fail safe mode)
>> and
>> have configured the specific accounts to be roaming profiles and their
>> files
>> are under a file server. My question is: when a user is logged in under
>> server1 and creates a new file, while he creates thye file, server 1 goes
>> down unexpectetly and the user will be transfered to server 2 which acts
>> as
>> fail over, the newly created file will be there or is it gone?
>> thank you in advance

George, you could redirect the "Shell Folders" of the users, that they point
to the file server into their profiles. The users then work directly
(transparently) on the file server and if server #1 crashes, the file is
likely to be OK. When the server crashes while the application is writing
the file, the file probably will get corrupted.

-jolt