Redirecting Profile Info?

The_KiD

The_KiD

The_KiD

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We have about 150 roaming users who use Citrix to connect in to our main systems.

Obviously this means they all have roaming profiles, but we find issues with their profile getting large and it being too slow to copy accross on to the Citrix server and them having issues logging in.

Is there a way to keep some of the info on a central server and just pointing the applications and things to that server?

If there is then what are the possible impacts of doing this?
 
My documents is already re-directed and that works fine it is more their application data and things along those lines.

I can set quota's but would prefer it if these things could be re-directed instead and just stay in one location instead of being copied from one place to another all the time.

The reason I dont want to set quota's is that we not out of disk space or even close to running out of it so disk space is something we can afford. Resource usage on the servers however is another matter.

The company is starting to want to use more and more aps that are resource hungry and limiting how much the Citrix servers have to do in the way of roaming profiles would be ideal.
 
I can't imagine that it's just the application data folders which are causing the logon slowdown - have you got your boxes set to delete local copies of roaming profiles or something?

server 2k3 + xp roaming profiles should only be copying files which have been modified to/from the roaming profile share, not the full thing.
 
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The_KiD said:
My documents is already re-directed and that works fine it is more their application data and things along those lines.
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I would also look into profile exclusions. This is a per profile setting (located @ HKCU\Software\microsoft\windows\nt\current version\winlogon\excludeprofiledirs). You might want to make sure that things like "local settings", ".javaws", ".hotjava", "sun" etc are excluded (the last three are java cache folders)
 
Sorry should have said at the beginning these are Win2K Servers.

We do delete local copies of roaming of profiles as keeping the local copies seems to cause problems and we can end up with hundreds of profile directories that we dont want.

Am sure I have seen people talking on here before about being able to point the application data and things like that back to a central server to speed up the logging in and out process.
 
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