Migrating User Profiles - Windows 2003 Server / TS

[Guest Mike]

Ok, we have a client that currently has two terminal servers. ATL-TS-01 and

ATL-TS-02

 

ATL-TS-01 is the terminal server when 100% of the daily users (say up to 28)

connect when working remotely. ATL-TS-02 is for a handful of users to use

for a single application (think compliance or HR). Now here is a kicker.

The handful of users that connect to ATL-TS-02 will also connect to

ATL-TS-01. Their profiles are not roaming, so they have one profile with all

the applications that have been installed on ATL-TS-01 etc, and their

profiles on ATL-TS-02 also have local profiles with a few custom applications

available to them. Also items like Office or Adobe are not installed on

ATL-TS-02.

 

Now here is the situation, they are in the process of building out a remote

site for Business Continuity as well as for Dist. Recovery purposes. This

data center in another state, on a seperate subnet (but same domain) will

also get a Terminal Server - call it COL-TS-01. Also they are wanting to

take ATL-TS-01 down and put up a new server. The main reason behind this is

ATL-TS-01 is running on Standard Edition, and not Enterprise. ATL-TS-01 in

the future wil have more and more users added to it, and thus they want the

ability in the future to load balance. Thus the need for Enterprise Server.

 

So we have been brought in to work on this as well as building 5 or 6

servers that will be replication servers for apps in the offsite data center.

The main questions I have are as follows:

 

1) Is there an easy way to move the profiles that are stored locally on

ATL-TS-01 to the new Term Serv running Enterprise Edition?

2) If I use GP or under the Terminal Services tab in a user's properties in

AD to setup a roaming profile, will it affect the user profiles of those also

logging on to ATL-TS-02?

3) If I set the profiles to a share on a file server say ATL-File-01, and

that folder is replicated to a server in the data center... can I create a

new terminal server group for the data center in active directory and set

that GP for the roaming profiles to the data center's file server shared

folder?

 

Thanks much in advance...