RDS - Suggestions for Migrating User Profiles from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 UPD
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As the title indicates, I have a new RDS Server (2016) where I need to migrate the user profiles from the old Server 2008 R2 server to the new one. I decided to go with UPD (user profile disks) and am not sure if there is an easy way to migrate the user profiles.
Has anyone done this?
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I've never done it, but found this:
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@Obsolesce said in RDS - Suggestions for Migrating User Profiles from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 UPD:
I've never done it, but found this:
Thanks. That one talks a lot about roaming profiles. There is a post that deals with some bat files copying stuff at login. I will look more into that to see if it can do what I need.
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Just curious, when you chose UPD, did you choose to store all settings or just certain folders?
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@pmoncho said in RDS - Suggestions for Migrating User Profiles from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 UPD:
Just curious, when you chose UPD, did you choose to store all settings or just certain folders?
All folders.
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@pmoncho said in RDS - Suggestions for Migrating User Profiles from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 UPD:
Just curious, when you chose UPD, did you choose to store all settings or just certain folders?
Some applications don't play nicely with roaming profiles.
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@dafyre said in RDS - Suggestions for Migrating User Profiles from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 UPD:
@pmoncho said in RDS - Suggestions for Migrating User Profiles from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 UPD:
Just curious, when you chose UPD, did you choose to store all settings or just certain folders?
Some applications don't play nicely with roaming profiles.
UPDs mount at the usual C:\Users\user.name and the applications can't tell a difference.
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@dafyre said in RDS - Suggestions for Migrating User Profiles from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 UPD:
@dafyre said in RDS - Suggestions for Migrating User Profiles from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 UPD:
@pmoncho said in RDS - Suggestions for Migrating User Profiles from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 UPD:
Just curious, when you chose UPD, did you choose to store all settings or just certain folders?
Some applications don't play nicely with roaming profiles.
UPDs mount at the usual C:\Users\user.name and the applications can't tell a difference.
Right. But, only when the user is logged in. After they logout, that path doesn't exist. I am trying to figure out how to work around that for adding the custom (for each user) erp shortcut on their desktop in their session.
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@wrx7m said in RDS - Suggestions for Migrating User Profiles from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 UPD:
@dafyre said in RDS - Suggestions for Migrating User Profiles from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 UPD:
@dafyre said in RDS - Suggestions for Migrating User Profiles from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 UPD:
@pmoncho said in RDS - Suggestions for Migrating User Profiles from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 UPD:
Just curious, when you chose UPD, did you choose to store all settings or just certain folders?
Some applications don't play nicely with roaming profiles.
UPDs mount at the usual C:\Users\user.name and the applications can't tell a difference.
Right. But, only when the user is logged in. After they logout, that path doesn't exist. I am trying to figure out how to work around that for adding the custom (for each user) erp shortcut on their desktop in their session.
Add the shortcut to
C:\Users\Public\Desktop.
That way it will always show up on each user Desktop. -
@black3dynamite said in RDS - Suggestions for Migrating User Profiles from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 UPD:
@wrx7m said in RDS - Suggestions for Migrating User Profiles from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 UPD:
@dafyre said in RDS - Suggestions for Migrating User Profiles from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 UPD:
@dafyre said in RDS - Suggestions for Migrating User Profiles from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 UPD:
@pmoncho said in RDS - Suggestions for Migrating User Profiles from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 UPD:
Just curious, when you chose UPD, did you choose to store all settings or just certain folders?
Some applications don't play nicely with roaming profiles.
UPDs mount at the usual C:\Users\user.name and the applications can't tell a difference.
Right. But, only when the user is logged in. After they logout, that path doesn't exist. I am trying to figure out how to work around that for adding the custom (for each user) erp shortcut on their desktop in their session.
Add the shortcut to
C:\Users\Public\Desktop.
That way it will always show up on each user Desktop.This would be nice and easy, but each user has a custom shortcut- It has a workstation ID in the target path.
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@wrx7m said in RDS - Suggestions for Migrating User Profiles from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 UPD:
@black3dynamite said in RDS - Suggestions for Migrating User Profiles from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 UPD:
@wrx7m said in RDS - Suggestions for Migrating User Profiles from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 UPD:
@dafyre said in RDS - Suggestions for Migrating User Profiles from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 UPD:
@dafyre said in RDS - Suggestions for Migrating User Profiles from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 UPD:
@pmoncho said in RDS - Suggestions for Migrating User Profiles from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 UPD:
Just curious, when you chose UPD, did you choose to store all settings or just certain folders?
Some applications don't play nicely with roaming profiles.
UPDs mount at the usual C:\Users\user.name and the applications can't tell a difference.
Right. But, only when the user is logged in. After they logout, that path doesn't exist. I am trying to figure out how to work around that for adding the custom (for each user) erp shortcut on their desktop in their session.
Add the shortcut to
C:\Users\Public\Desktop.
That way it will always show up on each user Desktop.This would be nice and easy, but each user has a custom shortcut- It has a workstation ID in the target path.
https://www.pdq.com/blog/pdq-deploy-and-powershell/
Create a script that creates the shortcut each user Desktop and append the workstation id in the target path.
