Mr.X
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Roaming Profiles
Hi guys,
I got roaming profiles deployed using AD profile path. not using folder redirection.
Profile all saving in a server- network shared folder. inside the folder, for each user, it has many versions. what does it mean ? why it is creating many versions ? is it ok to delete old versions ?
For eg. for userA, there are folders like. userA.v1 , userA.v2, userA.v3
right now drive in the server is running out of space, i need to clear some space straightaway, so is it ok to delete userA.V1 ? i mean ok to delete all versions except latest version number.
Could anyone plz help me with this.
Thank you
I got roaming profiles deployed using AD profile path. not using folder redirection.
Profile all saving in a server- network shared folder. inside the folder, for each user, it has many versions. what does it mean ? why it is creating many versions ? is it ok to delete old versions ?
For eg. for userA, there are folders like. userA.v1 , userA.v2, userA.v3
right now drive in the server is running out of space, i need to clear some space straightaway, so is it ok to delete userA.V1 ? i mean ok to delete all versions except latest version number.
Could anyone plz help me with this.
Thank you
masnrock
What versions of Windows do you have floating around? And do any users end up using systems that utilize different versions of Windows? (i.e. one system has Windows 7, another has Windows 10)
ASKER
its mostly windows 7 and 10.
mostly users don't change to another computer. so is that versions, indicate user profile is logged in different operating systems ? so is that not an issue. ?
mostly users don't change to another computer. so is that versions, indicate user profile is logged in different operating systems ? so is that not an issue. ?
ASKER
i got a problem with roaming profiles, it works good for all. except 2 users. whenever they delete files and restart computer it reappears again . do you have any idea why it is ?
It partly depends on that age of the profiles. You either have some ongoing issue, or these profiles have existed for years, and users have been moving up with the operating systems (which seems more likely), and the old profiles were never removed.
ASKER
so how do i resolve this issue ? files reappearing after restart.
except 2 users. whenever they delete files and restart computer it reappears again . do you have any idea why it is ?Sounds like a sync issue. Have you tried rebuilding the profiles for the two users in question?
ASKER
nope. how do i rebuild ? could you please explain in detail ?
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ok. i will try it now. when u say backup profile, it is c:users/ username. i should just create copy of that particular user folder. right ?
and i got another question. dropbox is also in roaming profile. how do i remove it from roaming profiles ?
and i got another question. dropbox is also in roaming profile. how do i remove it from roaming profiles ?
ok. i will try it now. when u say backup profile, it is c:users/ username. i should just create copy of that particular user folder. right ?Yes, that is the folder on the workstation. Remember what I mentioned about renaming also.
and i got another question. dropbox is also in roaming profile. how do i remove it from roaming profiles ?Remember that Dropbox stores in whatever profile it's in use within. So you could uninstall Dropbox or just log it off. You may also want to evaluate whether it's truly needed.
ASKER
Hi, i tried changing the profile name to ".old" in workstation, so can create new profile. but its not letting me do it.
"action cant be completed because the file in it is open in another program" i restarted and tried . same error message. any recommendations ?
"action cant be completed because the file in it is open in another program" i restarted and tried . same error message. any recommendations ?
When do the renaming on the workstation, you have to be logged in as a different user, presumably a domain admin.
ASKER
yes, i logged in as domain administrator and tried it. that's when the error comes .
Did you log out of the user account entirely or did you simply switch users?
ASKER
hi, thanks a lot . it all works fine now after following your above steps.
Am doing some further testing. will let you know how it goes.
Am doing some further testing. will let you know how it goes.
ASKER
hi i did some testing, deleting files, moving files around .all works good. thanks a lot for ur support
got one more question.
i tried to login into terminal server with the same user, it does not bring any of his documents or desktop files ?but it creates a profile folder with different version . is this usual ? should i manually copy documents from his workstation profile to server profile from server side ? ?
got one more question.
i tried to login into terminal server with the same user, it does not bring any of his documents or desktop files ?but it creates a profile folder with different version . is this usual ? should i manually copy documents from his workstation profile to server profile from server side ? ?
What version of Windows is on the workstation?
ASKER
windows version is 10 and server is 2008R2
And it looks like a never ending issue. because after creating new profile. it worked good for2 days.
then same issue came . if i restart, files re appear. but if i delete file and logoff/ logon. it seemed deleting good. (thought its something to do with restart, when restarting its not connecting to server)
but currently, after deleting file, even if i log off or restart, it keeps re appearing. its happening with just one same user.
And it looks like a never ending issue. because after creating new profile. it worked good for2 days.
then same issue came . if i restart, files re appear. but if i delete file and logoff/ logon. it seemed deleting good. (thought its something to do with restart, when restarting its not connecting to server)
but currently, after deleting file, even if i log off or restart, it keeps re appearing. its happening with just one same user.
After the two days, is it that the users was using both the terminal server AND the workstation? If so, that could be a part of the problem. And a requirement that users end up with multiple profiles. Windows 10 and Server 2008 R2 aren't compatible with the same version of profile. Then that becomes an annoyance because the data settings data when users switch back and forth.