@wrx7m said in Unlock RDS User Profile Disk (Network Profile):

@dbeato Good thing to have. I just recently migrated to RDS with UPD. Have you checked out Sidder?
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Sidder-Quickly-see-which-fa6360b3

Yeah, Sidder just tells you the VHDX file location and the user but doesn't unmount it and you cannot copy from Sidder the path.

There is a github repo of it here
https://github.com/msfreaks/Sidder

@wrx7m said in RDS - Suggestions for Migrating User Profiles from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 UPD:

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@wrx7m

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.

@wrx7m said in RDS 2019 Setup and RDS License Role:

When using UPD, is there anyway to access various users profiles' folders and files from the RDS server file system?
Example:
C:\Users\Bob\Desktop

Edit: I found that I can path to it via UNC (\ \server\c$\users\Bob\Desktop), but get permissions error when I go locally, from C:\Users\Bob\Desktop. Also, the Bob folder is only a shortcut (LNK file) in the users directory.

That is what I HATE about roaming folders... they simply do not act the same as local folders!

I typically download things to the desktop and execute from there. But when on a system that has a desktop redirected to the server - that fails 99% of the time, I have to move the executable to something actually local, then execute it.

this is amazingly didactical... really enjoy this.