Roaming profiles - laptop users who travel to sites with slow link

[RIMikeG]

Hi,
All our users -include laptop users - are configured with roaming profiles -
all stored on a file server in our large well connected head office. Many of
the laptop users travel to some of our smaller sites which have very slow
links e.g. 512k /128k ADSL.

I just wanted to confirm my understanding of roaming profiles - specifically
that when the user signs on in the small site that Windows XP will try to
pull down the profile from the central file server.

Can anyone confirm this ?

Regards
Michael

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Re: Roaming profiles - laptop users who travel to sites with slow link

RIMikeG <RIMikeG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> All our users -include laptop users - are configured with roaming
> profiles - all stored on a file server in our large well connected
> head office. Many of the laptop users travel to some of our smaller
> sites which have very slow links e.g. 512k /128k ADSL.
>
> I just wanted to confirm my understanding of roaming profiles -
> specifically that when the user signs on in the small site that
> Windows XP will try to pull down the profile from the central file
> server.

Yes, it will. Check out slow link detection...
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc758768.aspx

>
> Can anyone confirm this ?

<waves hand> Me! Pick me!

Note that if you're going to use roaming profiles (and h*ll, even if you
aren't) you really want to use folder redirection, and keep those profiles
*tiny*.
>
> Regards
> Michael