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    Windows RDS User Profiles - Migrate, Recreate or User Profile Disks?

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    • dafyreD
      dafyre @Dashrender
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      @Dashrender said in Windows RDS User Profiles - Migrate, Recreate or User Profile Disks?:

      @dafyre said in Windows RDS User Profiles - Migrate, Recreate or User Profile Disks?:

      It's funny...I get something completely different out of that article. That article seems to make it sound like you can do a UPD actually on the client systems NOT using VDI.

      that is the whole purpose of that article - is to show you how to 'break the rules' and do it on a local client, but he does say at the top that it's meant for VDI and RDS.

      Well dang... I need to go back and read that again, lol.

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      • dafyreD
        dafyre @Dashrender
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        @Dashrender said in Windows RDS User Profiles - Migrate, Recreate or User Profile Disks?:

        @dafyre said in Windows RDS User Profiles - Migrate, Recreate or User Profile Disks?:

        In the case of using VDI though, everybody would be on the SAME versiion of Windows. So you wouldn't need separate profiles for Win10 1607, 1709, and 1903 (or whatever)... You'd upgrade your Master image to 1903, and then deploy it (after heavy testing, of course). Bam! Everybody's on Win10 1903.

        That doesn't answer how you migrate profiles though from one version to the next.

        If all you're saving in the Profiles is Desktop,Docs, Pictures, and Videos... Why do you need to migrate the profiles?

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        • dbeatoD
          dbeato
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          @wrx7m said in Windows RDS User Profiles - Migrate, Recreate or User Profile Disks?:

          was meant for vdi only. I'm not doing vdi, so I I guess that makes the decision between migrating profiles or recreating them manually.

          You can actually UDP even without VDI, they are not only meant for VDI for sure. That's how I have multiple RDS deployments.

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          • dafyreD
            dafyre @dbeato
            last edited by dafyre

            @dbeato said in Windows RDS User Profiles - Migrate, Recreate or User Profile Disks?:

            @wrx7m said in Windows RDS User Profiles - Migrate, Recreate or User Profile Disks?:

            was meant for vdi only. I'm not doing vdi, so I I guess that makes the decision between migrating profiles or recreating them manually.

            You can actually UDP even without VDI, they are not only meant for VDI for sure. That's how I have multiple RDS deployments.

            Yeah, it's made for both RDS and VDI. In the Wizard for setting up a VDI or RDS Collection asks about UPDs.

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            • dbeatoD
              dbeato @dafyre
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              @dafyre said in Windows RDS User Profiles - Migrate, Recreate or User Profile Disks?:

              @dbeato said in Windows RDS User Profiles - Migrate, Recreate or User Profile Disks?:

              @wrx7m said in Windows RDS User Profiles - Migrate, Recreate or User Profile Disks?:

              was meant for vdi only. I'm not doing vdi, so I I guess that makes the decision between migrating profiles or recreating them manually.

              You can actually UDP even without VDI, they are not only meant for VDI for sure. That's how I have multiple RDS deployments.

              Yeah, it's made for both RDS and VDI. In the Wizard for setting up a VDI or RDS Collection asks about UPDs.

              Yeah, I was going to say that too.

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              • DashrenderD
                Dashrender @dafyre
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                @dafyre said in Windows RDS User Profiles - Migrate, Recreate or User Profile Disks?:

                @Dashrender said in Windows RDS User Profiles - Migrate, Recreate or User Profile Disks?:

                @dafyre said in Windows RDS User Profiles - Migrate, Recreate or User Profile Disks?:

                In the case of using VDI though, everybody would be on the SAME versiion of Windows. So you wouldn't need separate profiles for Win10 1607, 1709, and 1903 (or whatever)... You'd upgrade your Master image to 1903, and then deploy it (after heavy testing, of course). Bam! Everybody's on Win10 1903.

                That doesn't answer how you migrate profiles though from one version to the next.

                If all you're saving in the Profiles is Desktop,Docs, Pictures, and Videos... Why do you need to migrate the profiles?

                You're not - it has everything the profile has in it.. all the settings, etc. And they are version dependent.

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                • DashrenderD
                  Dashrender @dbeato
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                  @dbeato said in Windows RDS User Profiles - Migrate, Recreate or User Profile Disks?:

                  @wrx7m said in Windows RDS User Profiles - Migrate, Recreate or User Profile Disks?:

                  was meant for vdi only. I'm not doing vdi, so I I guess that makes the decision between migrating profiles or recreating them manually.

                  You can actually UDP even without VDI, they are not only meant for VDI for sure. That's how I have multiple RDS deployments.

                  Exactly - but the article I posted was a person who went against the purpose of UPD and found a way to use them on local Windows 10 machines... so, sure, it can be done, it's just 100% no supported by MS.

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                  • PhlipElderP
                    PhlipElder @NDC
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                    @NDC Our main pain with them was "Disk was surprised removed" messages in the Event Logs and the occasional Session Host that refused to let the UPD go after the user had logged out that brought about a support call.

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                    • dafyreD
                      dafyre @PhlipElder
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                      @PhlipElder said in Windows RDS User Profiles - Migrate, Recreate or User Profile Disks?:

                      @NDC Our main pain with them was "Disk was surprised removed" messages in the Event Logs and the occasional Session Host that refused to let the UPD go after the user had logged out that brought about a support call.

                      What version of Windows was that on for you? My current set up is 2012 R2 and we've not had any issues with it.

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                      • PhlipElderP
                        PhlipElder @dafyre
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                        @dafyre It's been a very long time, so I'm going to say 2012 R2.

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                        • dafyreD
                          dafyre @PhlipElder
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                          @PhlipElder said in Windows RDS User Profiles - Migrate, Recreate or User Profile Disks?:

                          @dafyre It's been a very long time, so I'm going to say 2012 R2.

                          Curious. How many users at once? Our system is generally low usage during the summer, but during the year, we have anywhere between 50 and 150 users at a time. Never had any issues like that.

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                          • PhlipElderP
                            PhlipElder @dafyre
                            last edited by PhlipElder

                            @dafyre Usually just one though the Surprised Removed message could be quite frequent with no impact to users. They were Event Log pollution.

                            We had one client we set up a pair of clusters for that decided to go with FSLogix because of the issues they were experiencing with native UPDs. That was on Server 2016.

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                            • dafyreD
                              dafyre @PhlipElder
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                              @PhlipElder said in Windows RDS User Profiles - Migrate, Recreate or User Profile Disks?:

                              @dafyre Usually just one though the Surprised Removed message could be quite frequent with no impact to users. They were Event Log pollution.

                              We had one client we set up a pair of clusters for that decided to go with FSLogix because of the issues they were experiencing with native UPDs. That was on Server 2016.

                              I'm liking what I see from FSLogix. I'll have to build an environment around that now that it's part of Microsoft.

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                              • PhlipElderP
                                PhlipElder @dafyre
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                                @dafyre Concur. It's on our To Do List to get done soon as we have some farm building coming up that we'd like to deploy FSLogix UPDs on.

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                                • NDCN
                                  NDC @PhlipElder
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                                  @PhlipElder said in Windows RDS User Profiles - Migrate, Recreate or User Profile Disks?:

                                  @NDC Our main pain with them was "Disk was surprised removed" messages in the Event Logs and the occasional Session Host that refused to let the UPD go after the user had logged out that brought about a support call.

                                  The problem here was that I couldn't get them to reliably connect at logon.

                                  I've seen that this is typically caused by the UPD not being unlocked properly after the last session but so far as I could tell ours were not locked.

                                  I used the MS tool for checking up on such things and could see the system lock an open disk when logon began, then unlock it 1/2 way through the process, leaving the user at the desktop with a temp profile.

                                  This would happen to test users after a week of successful logins. Some accounts it seemed to get stuck that way more or less permanently, others would switch back and forth between success and temp profiles seemingly at random.

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                                  • wrx7mW
                                    wrx7m @NDC
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                                    @NDC OK. Thanks for sharing your issues. I am just going to use regular profiles on a standard disk. I don't have time to deal with those types of issues.

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                                    • wrx7mW
                                      wrx7m
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                                      Just disabled the UPD options on the new server. I think I am going to instruct each person to login to the new server to create a fresh profile and just copy in some stuff.

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                                      • NDCN
                                        NDC @wrx7m
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                                        @wrx7m said in Windows RDS User Profiles - Migrate, Recreate or User Profile Disks?:

                                        @NDC OK. Thanks for sharing your issues. I am just going to use regular profiles on a standard disk. I don't have time to deal with those types of issues.

                                        I spent a fair amount of time trying to figure out what was going wrong and never saw anyone else with a similar problem in all my searching.

                                        I don't get the impression that this is common at all. Most people seem to think they just work and are an upgrade on old school roaming profiles.

                                        I don't think I'd let the one anecdote of trouble rule it out as an option unless you are in an extreme hurry.

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                                        • wrx7mW
                                          wrx7m @NDC
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                                          @NDC I just don't want to do the setup twice. Ain't nobody got time for that.

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                                          • PhlipElderP
                                            PhlipElder @wrx7m
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                                            @wrx7m We have not deployed anything RDS related without User Profile Disks in close to a decade now. I can think of maybe one exception and that was because it was a very small setup with no need for anything else plus it was temporary.

                                            User Profile Disks whether native or FSLogix, which is now included with RDS CALs by default, is the way to go.

                                            They make adding Session Hosts or additional collections to the farm so much easier to do when located on a file server.

                                            If someone blows-up their profile or it gets corrupted then SIDFinder to figure out their UPD, log them off, rename the UPD, log them on, configure their profile, mount the old UPD, and copy the needed data in if this is needed at all. Note that I am speaking specifically of something within the local profile getting corrupted here.

                                            We would not deploy an all-in-one or farm RDS configuration at all without a UPD setup. Period.

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