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Roaming profile vs Local profile

Hi guys,

At the moment we have roaming profile and am thinking of changing it to local profile... any disadvantage of changing back to local profile???
and what actually roam with the user?? is it either roaming or local ...or could i still use script some where???

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Profiles usually get quite big.  It's quite easy to get profiles up to a couple of hundred Mbs in size.
Bear in mind that enabling roaming profiles mean that whenever a user logs onto a machine for the first time, his/her profile will be downloaded to that machine (it then becomes a local profile).  Not a problem on a LAN, but a considerable problem if the poor soul has just logged onto your domain over a dial-up or VPN connection !



Hi Tim,

Using group policies you can set a maximum profile size and add directories that shouldn't be added within the roaming profiles (like temp files and temp internet files). Only thing to take into consideration with this is that the My documents folder is within the profile. Make sure to set this to another location using GPO. We use a 12,5 MB max on the profile and within 1 year we only had 1 person crossing this border (and she installed Hotbar which screwed up her roaming profile)..
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So can i just switch to local profile from roaming profile??

@holman when the user logs onto a machine for the first time his/her profile will be downloaded to that machine (it then becomes a local profile) isn't  correct that the profile is always downloaded and update from the server everytime the users logs on??


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To be more precise, the timestamp of the ntuser.dat file is used to determine whether to download the roaming one, or keep the existing local one, so if the roaming profile is more recent, then it will be pulled down:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q146/1/92.asp&NoWebContent=1

How to switch:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=312138