roaming profile

[Milos Puchta]

I have created roaming profile for user(s) and found that the local copy
of C:\Documents and Settings\User is not erased after the user logoffs.
The renewal of data on the share is working. The profile is roaming,
but what feature makes the local copy to disappear?

TIA
Milos

[DMC]

Not sure if you can make it disappear.

It is meant to say there...here's a good reason why...

Lets say that one day, the server/location where your
profiles are kept, crashes. What happens then? Well if
you dont have the local profiles, then you would have to
reconfigure each users' environment separately. If you
have the local profile, everything will already exist
(same as whats in the roaming profile).

>.
>

[Hall, Sheldon]

There is a setting in Computer and User Configuration, but I don't think it
works to that extent. The user will still always have a folder in the local
hard drive.

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[Tony Sheppard]

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<snip talking about deletion of locally stored roaming profiles>

> There is a setting in Computer and User Configuration, but I don't think
it
> works to that extent. The user will still always have a folder in the
local
> hard drive.
>

Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Logon > Delete
cached copies of roaming profiles.

If this doesn't do what you want you can always allow a script to run at
startup to delete the contents of c:\documents and settings (excepting local
administrator etc). Ours is needs tidying up and if I get the chance to do
so today (and removed some other bits of it) I will stick it up here.
Undoubtably there are others here who have better scripts than I do ....
(hint!)

Very handy in an educational institute where you have mandatory profiles and
up to 12 users logging onto each machine during a normal day.

Tony Sheppard
IT Support
Brooke Weston City Technology College

[Craig Marl [MSFT]]

Milos, by default we don't remove the cached copy of the profile when the
user logs off. This is so that, in cases where the server holding the
profile is down, the user can still log on with the cached copy. It also
give some significant performance advantages, as only files that have been
changed are copied to/from the client.
There's a Group Policy setting that you can use to control this default
behavior. The policy is called "Delete cached copies of roaming profiles"
and it is under the Computer Configuration\Administrative
Templates\System\Logon node of the Group Policy snap-in in Windows 2000, and
under Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\User Profiles
in Windows XP and above. When the policy is set, cached copies of the
profile are deleted when the user logs off (note that this is a machine wide
setting - when set, it applies to all users of that box). There's also a
Resource Kit tool named delprof.exe that allows you to delete profiles
locally and remotely, and has some extra options such the age of the profile
etc.
All this info is in the white paper @
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/administration/management/sett
ings.asp

hope this helps

- craig
c r a i g m a @ m i c r o s o f t . c o m

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