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A Windows concept refering to allow a user to see their information and settings in differente computers saving the user profile in a network shared folder instead the local hard disk.

A roaming user profile is a concept in the Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems that allows a user with a computer joined to a Windows Server domain to log on to any computer on the same network and access their documents and have a consistent desktop experience, such as applications remembering toolbar positions and preferences, or the desktop appearance staying the same

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Does 'Recycle Bin' storage affect roaming profile space?

Our company allocates 40MB space for profile storage on the server. A user has a file of 15MB in his Recycle Bin which was deleted from his Desktop. In the past few weeks this user noticed a message about his roaming profile not being loaded after…
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Changes to the value for Remote Desktop Services User Profile path do not take

TLDR; I can't figure out where the value for %appdata% is set for RDS servers. This appears to be different from the "Remote Desktop Services User Profile" directory in ADUC, as I can successfully manipulate that value and have it propagate. I am…
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Non-persistent Windows VDI with user profiles

We operate a Windows virtual desktop infrastructure with around 30 virtual machines. We have around 300 different users. All of them access the machines in arbitrary order and frequency. Each user has a own profile and settings that need to be…
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Outlook Exchange Active Sync with roaming profiles

I have some computers with Win 10, Outlook 2016 and roaming profiles. I want to access email through Exchange ActiveSync When I configure Outlook, the OST File ist stored in %userprofile%\appdata\local\Microsoft\Outlook So far, so good. However,…
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Roaming Profile & GPO & Security Group Interaction

I've set up roaming profiles (client insists) as per this doc: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/folder-redirection/deploy-roaming-user-profiles and it works, but there's something I don't get. Step 2 - Creating a security…
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SMB2? Traffic Crashing Network Windows Server 2012 R2

I am running a network at a school. The server is running Windows Server 2012 R2. Out of the blue about a week ago, I started experiencing network issues. Examples: Can't log into roaming profile Desktop background or icons fail to load on…
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How to setup a group profile based for terminal server via LDAP?

I have 4 terminal server "they are clustered together." All of them have the same specs and same configuration. and have Windows Server 2008 R2 installed on them. All users are using LDAP to log in. Also I am using roaming profiles for those…
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Roaming Profile Control

I noticed that with Roaming Profiles enabled that even applications have been roaming. Is this normal? Is there a way to keep applications from roaming? I like how Firefox bookmarks move from machine to machine(does cache move as well???) as it is a…
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Server 2012 Roaming Profile from server 2008

I set up a new server 2012 Standard box on the LAN and created a new domain. I've set the users profiles to roam. I'm trying to log on to the domain with one of the users I set up. The computer I'm using has been joined to the domain. When I try…
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Unwanted start menu items roaming with user profile

Our users are setup with roaming profiles in Active Directory. The trouble is that when they install some application on, say, machine A and it creates a start menu shortcut in C:\Users\userid\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\,…
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can I set Roaming Profiles to create folders and permissions on a new pc they are used on?

hopefully a quick question, we run roaming profiles on Server 2008 R2 to allow desk hot swapping. At the moment, because of some of the software packages running, we have to manually set the user as a local admin, create various internet explorer…
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Windows roaming profile when creating a new user profile

When a particular user is having a lot of problems with Windows XP e.g. applications crashing, unresponsive applications (which used to work), and as a general troubleshooting practice for a domain user, I normally rename that user's old profile and…
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Deleted files on network drive from user A show up in user B's local recycle bin

A customer relayed to us the issue that one of his users (user B) discovered sensitive documents in his recycle bin, which another user (user A) apparently deleted on a mapped network drive. Now, I am under the impression that this is not possible.…
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Script to copy down portions of a roaming profile

I'm currently working on migrating users to Windows 7 from XP. We use roaming profiles. Xp creates a folder named "Profile", while Windows creates "Profile.V2". Theses folders are independent of each other and do not synchronize. Users "lose" their…
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Group Policy / Roaming Profile Issue

I am running a Server 03 DC and this is happening on a Windows 7 PC. Each time we tried logging in as the user the only thing coming up is a temp profile. We thought it might be an issue with the way the OU/ GP was set up so we created a new OU and…
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