Slow login

Roaming profiles?
exclude items from the roaming profile

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y default, the History, Local Settings, Temp, and Temporary Internet Files folders are excluded from a user's profile. This means that these folders are not stored on the network and do not follow the user from PC to PC.

You can exclude addition folders by ADDing the Default Domain Policy to the MMC and setting Exclude

directories in roaming profile, by navigating through User Configuration\Administrative

Templates\System\Logon/Logoff.

There is no way to use this policy to include the folders that are excluded by default.

The results of the GPO are stored in the registry at:

HKEY_CURRENT_UsER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System\ExcludeProfileDirs. The

ExcludeProfileDirs value name is a REG_SZ data type, that stores the additional excluded folders in

Folder-name[;Folder-name...] format.

If you subsequently disable the policy, or set it to Not configured, Group Policy deletes the ExcludeProfileDirs

value name.

NOTE: If you add ExcludeProfileDirs, you must also add it at:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy

Objects\LocalUser\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System

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excluding folders from roaming profiles.

In Windows 2000, the default value of ExcludeProfileDirs at

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon is Local

Settings;Temporary Internet Files;History;Temp;Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook.

The Exclude directories in roaming profile Group Policy at User Configuration\Administrative

Templates\System\Logon/Logoff lets you add to the list of folders which are excluded from your roaming profile.

The additional folders that you configure are stored in the ExcludeProfileDirs value name, as a string variable

(REG_SZ), at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System.

NOTE: You could reduce the number of Days to keep pages in history on the General tab of Internet Options,

and check the Empty temporary Internet Files when browser is closed box on the Advanced tab.

3712 » Excluded profile folders are being uploaded to your Windows 2000 profile?

Even though you have excluded some directories from your profile (tips 3868 and 3543), these excluded folders are

uploaded to your profile when you log off?

When Windows 2000 retrieves the ExcludeProfileDirs value, it writes the data to Ntuser.ini. If the data exceeds 260

characters, a buffer overflow occurs and the entire string is considered to be NULL.

To resolve the issue, limit the total length of the exclusion list to 260 characters.

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496 » You MUST disable the cache option for Offline Files on a roaming profile share?

If you do not disable the cache option for Offline Files on a user profile share, the profile will become unstable, as

both the Offline Files and roaming profile attempt to synchronize the files in the profile.

The cache option is SMB share based. If you enable the cache option on a share, and roaming profiles are below that

share, Offline Files caches files in the profile.

NOTE: Whenever possible, store roaming profiles and offline-enabled shares on different servers.

To resolve the problem:

Create a separate share for user profiles and disable the cache option on the new share by opening a CMD prompt and

typing:

net share \\Server\Sharename /cache:no

You can use Windows Explorer to disable the cache by right-clicking the shared folder and press Properties. On the

Sharing tab, press the Caching button and clear the Allow caching of files in this folder box

Wow, that is a very conprehensive help you give stevenlewis. Thanks...
Anyway, I don't use Roaming Profiles for all of my users (2000 of them).
GPO is applied and LOGIN scripts are witten just to map network drive. Everyone is using the LOGIN script globally from the DC server. Even with a freshly installed PC, the delay is still there. My network administrator says that it might be due to the NIC drivers. How can I rectify that. I am not a DC or server administrator but a workstation and helpdesk administrator.