Guest ketil.hage@gmail.com Posted October 7, 2007 Posted October 7, 2007 Is it possible to exclude the folder My Documents from the profile, i don't want this folder to be copied to the server. I'm using profiles and now the server disk is almost full.. I'm also using GPO's and have 300 users, so if it could be possible to exclude My Documets folder from the server side through GPO's or something it would be great...
Guest Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] Posted October 7, 2007 Posted October 7, 2007 Re: Exclude My Documents from profile ketil.hage@gmail.com wrote: > Is it possible to exclude the folder My Documents from the profile, i > don't want this folder to be copied to the server. I'm using profiles > and now the server disk is almost full. You mean roaming profiles, then - otherwise there would be no server component. > > I'm also using GPO's and have 300 users, so if it could be possible to > exclude My Documets folder from the server side through GPO's or > something it would be great... While you can exclude certain folders via GPO, I'm not sure about the My Documents special folder - and since My Documents is where your users' data is stored by default, why would you not want this data on your servers? Use folder redirection instead of leaving it as part of the profile....a large profile is a recipe for disaster. You're likely to need additional disk space on your server if you're running out of space now, regardless.... Try posting in m.p.windows.group_policy, but I'm posting my own boilerplate on roaming profiles below. I've been doing it this way for years and it works pretty well. ---- General tips: 1. Set up a share on the server. For example - d:\profiles, shared as profiles$ to make it hidden from browsing. Make sure this share is *not* set to allow offline files/caching! (that's on by default - disable it) 2. Make sure the share permissions on profiles$ indicate everyone=full control. Set the NTFS security to administrators, system, and users=full control. 3. In the users' ADUC properties, specify \\server\profiles$\%username% in the profiles field 4. Have each user log into the domain once from their usual workstation (where their existing profile lives) and log out. The profile is now roaming. 5. If you want the administrators group to automatically have permissions to the profiles folders, you'll need to make the appropriate change in group policy. Look in computer configuration/administrative templates/system/user profiles - there's an option to add administrators group to the roaming profiles permissions. Notes: * Make sure users understand that they should not log into multiple computers at the same time when they have roaming profiles (unless you make the profiles mandatory by renaming ntuser.dat to ntuser.man so they can't change them). Explain that the last one out wins, when it comes to uploading the final, changed copy of the profile. * Keep your profiles TINY. Via group policy, redirect My Documents at the very least - to a subfolder of the user's home directory or user folder. Also consider redirecting Desktop & Application Data similarly..... so the user will have: \\server\home$\%username%\My Documents, \\server\home$\%username%\Desktop, \\server\home$\%username%\Application Data. Alternatively, just manually re-target My Documents to \\server\home$\%username% (this is not optimal, however!) If you aren't going to also redirect the desktop using policies, tell users that they are not to store any files on the desktop or you will beat them with a stick. Big profile=slow login/logout, and possible profile corruption. * Note that user profiles are not compatible between different OS versions, even between W2k/XP. Keep all your computers. Keep your workstations as identical as possible - meaning, OS version is the same, SP level is the same, app load is (as much as possible) the same. * Do not let people store any data locally - all data belongs on the server. * The User Profile Hive Cleanup Utility should be running on all your computers. You can download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1B286E6D-8912-4E18-B570-42470E2F3582&displaylang=en
Guest ketil.hage@gmail.com Posted October 8, 2007 Posted October 8, 2007 Re: Exclude My Documents from profile Thanx for an informative answer, we are moving from a Novell server to a win2003 server so users are used to save in network folders... how can i easiest remove use of roaming profile from the server without getting errors afterwards?
Guest Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] Posted October 8, 2007 Posted October 8, 2007 Re: Exclude My Documents from profile ketil.hage@gmail.com wrote: > Thanx for an informative answer, we are moving from a Novell server to > a win2003 server so users are used to save in network folders... They will still do so. Since you're moving to AD, just use folder redirection to enforce it....each user should have his/her own private directory, and I like to use My Document redirection there (not a shared folder), whether they use it or not. If everyone were diligently saving things to mapped network drives, your users' My Documents folders would be empty, and wouldn't be taking up any space....but redirect them anyway. > how > can i easiest remove use of roaming profile from the server without > getting errors afterwards? Now you want to remove the entire roaming *profile* ? Why?
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