roaming profile changes

[Guest George]

hello,

i am currently using thin clients and have the users to use TS in order to

connect on two win 2003 servers(act as load balancing and fail safe mode) and

have configured the specific accounts to be roaming profiles and their files

are under a file server. My question is: when a user is logged in under

server1 and creates a new file, while he creates thye file, server 1 goes

down unexpectetly and the user will be transfered to server 2 which acts as

fail over, the newly created file will be there or is it gone?

thank you in advance

[Guest Jeff Pitsch]

Re: roaming profile changes

 

If it's a crash and not a proper logout then the answer is no. Profiles are

always created and run locally on the server/workstation. When the user

logs out, the profile is then copied to the file server. The roaming

profile location is simply a storage area for the profile, it is not where

the profile is actually run from.

 

Jeff Pitsch

Microsoft MVP - Terminal Services

 

"George" <George@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:3C37FBC4-6335-42E0-B444-1753B05C6486@microsoft.com...

> hello,

> i am currently using thin clients and have the users to use TS in order to

> connect on two win 2003 servers(act as load balancing and fail safe mode)

> and

> have configured the specific accounts to be roaming profiles and their

> files

> are under a file server. My question is: when a user is logged in under

> server1 and creates a new file, while he creates thye file, server 1 goes

> down unexpectetly and the user will be transfered to server 2 which acts

> as

> fail over, the newly created file will be there or is it gone?

> thank you in advance

[Guest jolteroli]

Re: roaming profile changes

 

"Jeff Pitsch" <jeff@jeffpitschconsulting.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag

news:eeON07a5IHA.4448@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

> If it's a crash and not a proper logout then the answer is no. Profiles

> are always created and run locally on the server/workstation. When the

> user logs out, the profile is then copied to the file server. The roaming

> profile location is simply a storage area for the profile, it is not where

> the profile is actually run from.

>

> Jeff Pitsch

> Microsoft MVP - Terminal Services

>

> "George" <George@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:3C37FBC4-6335-42E0-B444-1753B05C6486@microsoft.com...

>> hello,

>> i am currently using thin clients and have the users to use TS in order

>> to

>> connect on two win 2003 servers(act as load balancing and fail safe mode)

>> and

>> have configured the specific accounts to be roaming profiles and their

>> files

>> are under a file server. My question is: when a user is logged in under

>> server1 and creates a new file, while he creates thye file, server 1 goes

>> down unexpectetly and the user will be transfered to server 2 which acts

>> as

>> fail over, the newly created file will be there or is it gone?

>> thank you in advance

 

George, you could redirect the "Shell Folders" of the users, that they point

to the file server into their profiles. The users then work directly

(transparently) on the file server and if server #1 crashes, the file is

likely to be OK. When the server crashes while the application is writing

the file, the file probably will get corrupted.

 

-jolt