Windows roaming profile managment

[edscdk]

We have 8000 users 2.6 million files, 2million folders in our profiles folder

Does anyone have experience with profile management

1) what folders can I redirect without possibly effecting app performance
2) I notice Mcrappie av has created mutiple folders in all 8k users profiles (app data) can I stop it or force them to be redirected?
3) most importantly I'd be interested to hear from anyone who has set this up, and pitfalls or dos /don't

Bizarrely we have no budget for profile managment software so it will have to be done with group policy's

 

[Raumarik]

OK start from the beginning.

Why are you using roaming profiles? Is it operationally vital? or is it purely a historic convenience which if you scrapped would affect a handful of users?

Most of the time it's convenience and taking docs from profiles and shoving them into redirected "my documents" hosted on a share is simply easier and better particularly if you don't have full disk encryption on endpoints