roaming profile to remote desktop access

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Hi,
We have a server with a Terminal Services Server. Everybody in the office
has a login name and password on this and they log onto any PC in the office
and Remote Desktop onto their terminal services desktop. One PC was
originally setup with a roaming profile and that one person now seems to be
working far slower than all the other users (accessing data and loading
databases etc.) I think this is due to a huge profile.

I would like to convert this user to the same as everybody else (Just a
basic Remote Desktop Logon without being a roaming profile) but don't really
know what to do and am also afraid of loosing all her data and settings. Any
suggestions in the right direction would be appreciated.
Cheers
Lenny
 
You should be able to simply eliminate the path to the roaming profile in
the "Profile" tab in the Domain Controller.

-Frank

"lenny" <lenny@thetakeout.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> We have a server with a Terminal Services Server. Everybody in the office
> has a login name and password on this and they log onto any PC in the
> office and Remote Desktop onto their terminal services desktop. One PC was
> originally setup with a roaming profile and that one person now seems to
> be working far slower than all the other users (accessing data and loading
> databases etc.) I think this is due to a huge profile.
>
> I would like to convert this user to the same as everybody else (Just a
> basic Remote Desktop Logon without being a roaming profile) but don't
> really know what to do and am also afraid of loosing all her data and
> settings. Any suggestions in the right direction would be appreciated.
> Cheers
> Lenny
>
 
Thanks Frank.

"Frankster" <Frank@SPAM2TRASH.com> wrote in message
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> You should be able to simply eliminate the path to the roaming profile in
> the "Profile" tab in the Domain Controller.
>
> -Frank
>
> "lenny" <lenny@thetakeout.com> wrote in message
> news:wYCdnbC2T9Pl56fVnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@pipex.net...
>> Hi,
>> We have a server with a Terminal Services Server. Everybody in the office
>> has a login name and password on this and they log onto any PC in the
>> office and Remote Desktop onto their terminal services desktop. One PC
>> was originally setup with a roaming profile and that one person now seems
>> to be working far slower than all the other users (accessing data and
>> loading databases etc.) I think this is due to a huge profile.
>>
>> I would like to convert this user to the same as everybody else (Just a
>> basic Remote Desktop Logon without being a roaming profile) but don't
>> really know what to do and am also afraid of loosing all her data and
>> settings. Any suggestions in the right direction would be appreciated.
>> Cheers
>> Lenny
>>
>
 
That will prevent a roaming profile from being created on new machines, but
the 'primary' workstation must also be told to use a local profile, whether
that is the machine she logs in to, or the TS...depending on where you are
trying to improve performance.

To do so, go to the system properties, click on the advanced tab, click on
the 'settings' button in the user profiles box, and then find her user and
click on the 'change type' button.

Good luck,

-Cliff


To do this, on the workstation,
"Frankster" <Frank@SPAM2TRASH.com> wrote in message
news:z6-dnelpmuMyOqfVnZ2dnUVZ_hqdnZ2d@giganews.com...
> You should be able to simply eliminate the path to the roaming profile in
> the "Profile" tab in the Domain Controller.
>
> -Frank
>
> "lenny" <lenny@thetakeout.com> wrote in message
> news:wYCdnbC2T9Pl56fVnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@pipex.net...
>> Hi,
>> We have a server with a Terminal Services Server. Everybody in the office
>> has a login name and password on this and they log onto any PC in the
>> office and Remote Desktop onto their terminal services desktop. One PC
>> was originally setup with a roaming profile and that one person now seems
>> to be working far slower than all the other users (accessing data and
>> loading databases etc.) I think this is due to a huge profile.
>>
>> I would like to convert this user to the same as everybody else (Just a
>> basic Remote Desktop Logon without being a roaming profile) but don't
>> really know what to do and am also afraid of loosing all her data and
>> settings. Any suggestions in the right direction would be appreciated.
>> Cheers
>> Lenny
>>
>
 
lenny <lenny@thetakeout.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> We have a server with a Terminal Services Server. Everybody in the
> office has a login name and password on this and they log onto any PC
> in the office and Remote Desktop onto their terminal services
> desktop. One PC was originally setup with a roaming profile and that
> one person now seems to be working far slower than all the other
> users (accessing data and loading databases etc.) I think this is due
> to a huge profile.
> I would like to convert this user to the same as everybody else (Just
> a basic Remote Desktop Logon without being a roaming profile) but
> don't really know what to do and am also afraid of loosing all her
> data and settings. Any suggestions in the right direction would be
> appreciated. Cheers
> Lenny

Don't mix and match profiles. All your TS users should have a terminal
sservices profile path specified either in their user account properties in
ADUC or via group policy. I tend to use \\server\profiles$ for roaming,
\\server\tsprofiles$ for terminal services.
 
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