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Stop local profiles being created
I have 9 Client machines and 1 server running SBS 2003 (clients all running XP). i have about 20 users who all have there own user logon's. I have set up roaming profiles (as far as i can see) but when ever a user logs onto a client machine if they havent used that one before it creates a local folder in C:\Documents and Settings the folders name is the same as their user name and contains - Application Data, Cookies, Favorites, start menu, and desktop (i thought all of this was part of the profile and in the user properties on server i have told it that the profile should be on the server in a folder called profiles and then sub folder for each user). I have also redirected start menu, desktop using a GPO, and to begin with it ised to sycronise at logoff, i made some GPO changes and that appears to of stopped but i think is still happening behind the scenes.
How do i stop local profiles being created for each user and just use the server to hold all info?
How do i stop local profiles being created for each user and just use the server to hold all info?
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Computer101
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If the use has no profile (roaming or local) then the local default profile is used.
While you can't stop local profiles being copied locally you can set up a group policy that will delete the local copy after it has been sync'ed. To do the edit the default domain security policy and enable the option to 'Delete Cached Copies of roaming Profiles' under the Computer Configuration/System/Admin