Roaming Desktop delays

[daint]

Hello all,

Im trying to enable each user on my network to have a desktop directly from the server. E.g. When a file is saved on the desktop, the actual file location is on the server, without the usual logon/logoff delay with roaming profiles.

My university did this with no apparent extra software, I was wondering if anyone knew how to do this, or what software would enable me to do this.

Thanks

Daint

 

[sdibias]

Roaming profiles are cool, but they can add alot of traffic congestion to a busy network. Every time you log on to particular network computer for the first time, all your roaming profile data roles across the wire.
I prefer folder redirection, it solves the problem with roaming profiles. Files in redirected folders travel across the wire only when the user works with them, saving network bandwidth.


You have to setup folder redirection on a Win2k server machine, using the Group Policy tools. There you can specify (for example) when any domain user logs on, the user's My Documents folder doesn't live on the workstation hard drive, but rather on a network server...
An example, in \\srv01\redirect\%username%

Hope that helps? sdibias
MCSE 2000