Documents and Settings

[Guest Adurr]

I am running a Citrix MetaFrame server on a Windows 2003 X64 Server. The

root drive is almost out of space and I would like to move the Documents and

Setting folders to the D: Drive which is where all my data is stored. Is

this possible? Can someone give me guidance?

 

Thanks.

[Guest Vera Noest [MVP]]

Re: Documents and Settings

 

From

http://ts.veranoest.net/ts_faq_profiles.htm#move_DocSettings

 

Q: User profiles are filling up my C: drive. Can I move them to

my D: drive?

 

A: The only supported method to change the location of the

Documents and Settings folder is through an unattended setup of the

Windows OS.

This is documented in the following KB article:

 

236621 - Cannot Move or Rename the Documents and Settings Folder

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=236621

 

which also describes an unsupported procedure. If you choose to use

that method, make sure that you have a full backup of the registry

and the server, and that you know how to use the recovery console.

 

Personally, I would recommend to use roaming profiles. If you

configure the server to delete the locally cached copy of the

roaming profile when the users log off (see KB 274152), then you

will never store more profiles on your Terminal Server than the

number of concurrent users.

 

Minimize the size of the profile by using Folder redirection.

Minimally, you should redirect My Documents to the users Home

directory and get rid of Temporary Internet Files.

 

Recommended reading:

274443 - How to dynamically create security-enhanced redirected

folders by using folder redirection in Windows 2000 and in Windows

Server 2003

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=274443

_________________________________________________________

Vera Noest

MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server

TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net

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=?Utf-8?B?QWR1cnI=?= <Adurr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on 20

jul 2007 in microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> I am running a Citrix MetaFrame server on a Windows 2003 X64

> Server. The root drive is almost out of space and I would like

> to move the Documents and Setting folders to the D: Drive which

> is where all my data is stored. Is this possible? Can someone

> give me guidance?

>

> Thanks.