romain user profiles for windows users

Computer Configuration -> Policies -> Administrative Templates -> System -> User Profiles

Hi Sekar

I am not seeing the existing settings that points to current network share but I Guess you mean that is where I can set to save new settings?

how do I find out about the existing settings please?  thanks

profile location. should defined there. for steps to implement the the user profile via gpo https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj649079(v=ws.11).aspx

thanks, very useful links. I Believe these are to set a new area from scratch.

I know the location where user roaming profiles are stored on the network, I just can't find that hard link in AD server to change it..

if helps to give better explanation, users' AppData (Roaming) information under ->User configuration ->Policies->WIndows Settings->Folder Redirection->AppData (Roaming) is set to be stored in users' home folders as part of folder redirection.
I believe this is a common folder redirection configuration and this data is set on a different share. What I am after is user profiles are stored on a different share as test.account.V2

GP result is not showing information about users' profile location

how about logon script and user properties??? did you checked?? may be script used to map the same.

It is visible in AD Users and Computers...

Select a user, right-click and select properties, go to the "Profiles" tab.  Under the section "User Profile" there is a field called Profile Path.

Dan

Hi

in AD, sysvol  folder do not have any scripts for logon process..  please let me  know if I missed anything here.

user AD properties do not have path set for any user. logon script field is also empty.

How are you setting the roaming profile path then?  If its not in the properties of an AD user object, then it is being set by something else.

I would check this article out and see if you can find a GPO that is controlling roaming.

Link:  http://www.grouppolicy.biz/2010/03/setting-of-the-week-19-set-roaming-profile-path-for-all-users-logging-onto-this-computer/

Dan

I don't think this is done via GPO here as I can't seem to find profile is configured for all the GPOs we have.

I checked sysvol folder and not seeing anything relevant. there must be something I'm missing here. where within the AD you look for scripts incase it is  set by a scripting?

thanks

Did you look in the article and follow thru to locate the template in GP Manager that allows control of home directories?

There are typically 3 way to do the: 1. login script;  2. GPO & 3. directly on the AD account.  If none of these exist, then I would be surprised that home drives are being remapped.  Have you looked on the AD accounts for a login script?

Dan

hi Dan,

there is no information in user profile path from account  properties of users. Only information we have there is home folder path. what I need to find out if user  profiles.  from  GPO we manage home folder redirections which also contains romaing data   and desktops

cv

OK... did you just answer your own question?  If you manage home directory redirection thru GPO and the home directory also contains roaming data and desktop.... you've located your profiles!  Roaming data and the desktops are part of a user's profile.

Only information we have there is home folder path. what I need to find out if user  profiles.  from  GPO we manage home folder redirections which also contains romaing data and desktops

So then, you control the user's roaming profile location thru GPO.  Modify the GPO that controls home directory redirection.

Dan

thanks Dan, that was also my impression but what is it that gets created and updated on a separate networks share purely for user profiles?
home folders are redirected to different share on DFS and I can see roaming profiles are on a different share and this is where I am getting confused?

Can you post some screenshots of your DFS Namespace relating to user home dirs and the contents of the GPO that controls the configuration?

Dan

hi Dan

sorry for the late reply.

users home drives are set to reside on  different file servers  and using security groups in AD and  based on user's  security group membership, home folders are redirected to specific file servers for each user.  Actual GPO for folder redirection is done using Advanced option where you specify Security group and target location..  I had no issue with this setup. all links to file servers are managed by DFS where we have different target servers for home folders.

I also see an old DFS link called user profiles which target server is an old server that only hosts user roaming profiles. when I rename one of the test account, test account no longer can login to domain..

all users home folders are set in AD account properties and no user profile path is set manually or hard coded in AD server. I am struggling to find where in AD that hard link is written for AD to write romaing profiles to old server set in old DFS link. my corncern is that if I disable the link I believe no one can login. on client machines, I Can see everyone is using roaming profile that gets updated to new location in new DFS that I setup and all redirection policies are working fine as I tested it and had no complaints from end users.
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First, the screen capture is not readable, its too small to be of any help.

- So, all of your users have roaming profile on this old server?  Even new users?
- What procedure(s) do you follow to setup a new user?
- How is their roaming profile directory setup?

Dan

Any additional info for this question?

Dan

Hi Dan

thanks for your patience. I answered your question and also attached a screenhot with some explanation. Please let me know if more answers needed,

 So, all of your users have roaming profile on this old server?  Even new users?    
roaming profiles are part of folder redirection and contents are saved in to new server for both old and new user

 - What procedure(s) do you follow to setup a new user?  
user accounts are created manually and their home profile path is set manually to one of the home folder areas, user is then added to relevant  security group to have folder redirection  to take place based on their security group membership ( I attached a screenshot)

 - How is their roaming profile directory setup?
field is emty in AD properties of user account. no hard coding to point user roaming profiles.
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HI Dan

I attached settings section of GPO with another screenshot

I did some test today and noticed that folders that are redirected to  new server appears on old server too but content is empty. Same for Documents folder too. with my test account, I logged to a PC on the domain and saved a test doc to documents folder and change is only updated on new server only although some strange reasons documents folder still appears on old server for some users I should say with no content in it..

Second thing I observed is that date modified  date for testaccount123.V2 only gets updated when I log out from PC... in other words, I can see who logged out at which date and time as testaccount123 modification date is only gets updated during log off not log in.. Hope I am clear here..  I believe this is happening as music, pictures folders are left out from folder redirection but what policy is pushing those folders to old server is what I can't answer.  when I rename their profiles on old server from testaccount123.V2 to  test.account123.old.V2 it creates a new folder called testaccount123.v2 after log of..

What I think happening is that any item left out from redirection finds its way to old server,  such as music and Videos.

GPO is applied to all users in AD
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just to be more clear here
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Second thing I observed is that date modified  date for testaccount123.V2 only gets updated when I log out from PC... in other words, I can see who logged out at which date and time as testaccount123 modification date is only gets updated during log off not log in.. "

this is happening on old server not on new. if I add music and pictures folders into the existing folder redirection policy, I think it would then stop users' music, pictures and searches folder appearing from old server hence I believe no roaming profile will get created on old server. However, I am not seeing what policy is pushing music, pictures and search folder to old server.

it was one of the client policy forcing it to old location.