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By defining a path in the &quot;remote desktop services profile&quot; part of the user object as you have done, the roaming profile is activated and any RDS session (such as on your Citrix servers, which are RDSH servers too) will pull the info down at logon and copy it back at logoff.<br />
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you can also configure a remote desktop services profile path in GPO, yes<br />
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As to Q2, yes, this user object property applies to RDSH (which underpins Citrix), so if Citrix is removed it functions in the exact same way.
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To clarify, as you log onto PCs through the console and not through RDSH, then the roaming profile will not be activated. To do this on PCs, you would define a roaming profile path on the &quot;profile&quot; tab in the user object, not the &quot;remote desktop services profile&quot; as in your screenshot
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When I logon to a PC, using Remote Desktop Connection? &nbsp;The same Remote profile settings do not follow me when I logon to a PC using RDP.<br />
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I am thinking that there must be logon settings applied to the Citrix Servers via Group Policy. &nbsp;Does anyone have any other explanations?
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Question1:<br />
How do the Citrix Servers know that they should pull the user information from the areas listed above?<br />
Is there a Group Policy in the works?<br />
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We configure the policy in gpo and set the profile path in common share and also profile management used for profile configuration on citrix server side.<br />
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Question2:<br />
If we stop using Citrix and have our users use Remote Desktop Connection instead, will the roaming profile settings still work the same way?<br />
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Yes you by defining the path , for better understanding <a href="https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/rds/2009/06/03/user-profiles-on-windows-server-2008-r2-remote-desktop-services/" rel="ugc nofollow">https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/rds/2009/06/03/user-profiles-on-windows-server-2008-r2-remote-desktop-services/</a>
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Thank you for the information. &nbsp;Microsoft verified that we will still need to purchase Remote Desktop User Cals to work with the Terminal Servers(Remote Desktop users), if we did decide to go away with Citrix.<br />
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Equally important the normal Remote Desktop will only work on PC's or servers for 1 user at a time not for several logons on the same server at the same time.<br />
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<a href="https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc742806.aspx" rel="ugc">https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc742806.aspx</a><br />
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Thank you
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Regarding Sekar Chinnakannu's comment. &nbsp;We do not use GPO to associate the roaming profile with teh Remote Desktop Service Servers.
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Hello:<br />
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We have our users setup with roaming user profiles, when they are logged on to our Citrix Servers (Microsoft Terminal Servers). We do use 3 separate Citrix servers that our users may logon to. &nbsp;Please see the attached screen shot.<br />
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Our users do not have roaming profiles if they logon to a PC. &nbsp;<br />
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Question1:<br />
How do the Citrix Servers know that they should pull the user information from the areas listed above?<br />
Is there a Group Policy in the works?<br />
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Question2:<br />
If we stop using Citrix and have our users use Remote Desktop Connection instead, will the roaming profile settings still work the same way?
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Hello:

We have our users setup with roaming user profiles, when they are logged on to our Citrix Servers (Microsoft Terminal Servers). We do use 3 separate Citrix servers that our users may logon to.  Please see the attached screen shot.



Our users do not have roaming profiles if they logon to a PC.  

Question1:
How do the Citrix Servers know that they should pull the user information from the areas listed above?
Is there a Group Policy in the works?

Question2:
If we stop using Citrix and have our users use Remote Desktop Connection instead, will the roaming profile settings still work the same way?

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