Can Roaming Profiles be a good idea?
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Roaming profiles are an archaic approach and a major headache, always have been in every environment I've been in. They were a good idea when introduced, but constantly has issues. Folder redirection replaced roaming in some environments, but I've still had some of the weirdest issues with even folder redirection. There are other methods for storing files anymore.
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I only use a small subset of roaming profiles, which is only to sync user certificates. It stores them in AD and are automatically loaded into their personal certificate store on the machines they log in to.
I wouldn't use more than that.
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My advice is to not use roaming profiles and instead use Folder Redirection , they will be less trouble.
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@dbeato said in Can Roaming Profiles be a good idea?:
My advice is to not use roaming profiles and instead use Folder Redirection , they will be less trouble.
This is the best way to do it imo.
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@dbeato said in Can Roaming Profiles be a good idea?:
My advice is to not use roaming profiles and instead use Folder Redirection , they will be less trouble.
Also using roaming profiles will create different profile versions for each OS the RDS are on which can cause a lot headache with registry and applications.
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@dbeato said in Can Roaming Profiles be a good idea?:
My advice is to not use roaming profiles and instead use Folder Redirection , they will be less trouble.
Manual Folder Redirection with Symbolic Links
I've actually been using folder redirection with symbolic links instead of changing any of the user shell folders paths. And with some adjustments, its been working great for users that are using Nextcloud. -
@black3dynamite said in Can Roaming Profiles be a good idea?:
@dbeato said in Can Roaming Profiles be a good idea?:
My advice is to not use roaming profiles and instead use Folder Redirection , they will be less trouble.
Manual Folder Redirection with Symbolic Links
I've actually been using folder redirection with symbolic links instead of changing any of the user shell folders paths. And with some adjustments, its been working great for users that are using Nextcloud.That’s good that it works for you, although symbolic links can be a disaster if not properly configured in Windows.
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@dbeato said in Can Roaming Profiles be a good idea?:
@black3dynamite said in Can Roaming Profiles be a good idea?:
@dbeato said in Can Roaming Profiles be a good idea?:
My advice is to not use roaming profiles and instead use Folder Redirection , they will be less trouble.
Manual Folder Redirection with Symbolic Links
I've actually been using folder redirection with symbolic links instead of changing any of the user shell folders paths. And with some adjustments, its been working great for users that are using Nextcloud.That’s good that it works for you, although symbolic links can be a disaster if not properly configured in Windows.
How? I have never had a problem with symlinks.
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@jaredbusch said in Can Roaming Profiles be a good idea?:
@dbeato said in Can Roaming Profiles be a good idea?:
@black3dynamite said in Can Roaming Profiles be a good idea?:
@dbeato said in Can Roaming Profiles be a good idea?:
My advice is to not use roaming profiles and instead use Folder Redirection , they will be less trouble.
Manual Folder Redirection with Symbolic Links
I've actually been using folder redirection with symbolic links instead of changing any of the user shell folders paths. And with some adjustments, its been working great for users that are using Nextcloud.That’s good that it works for you, although symbolic links can be a disaster if not properly configured in Windows.
How? I have never had a problem with symlinks.
Before Windows 10 to get a symlinknyou couldn’t do it without elevated permissions now is much improved. I was just stating that if not planned properly (meaning symlinks are created but configuration of NextCloud, OneDrive or whatever’s have you are not set) You wil have applications and data issues (which is expected) . Linux has very well set symlinks better than Windows in my opinion so far.
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@dbeato said in Can Roaming Profiles be a good idea?:
Before Windows 10 to get a symlinknyou couldn’t do it without elevated permissions now is much improved.
I use directory junction (/J) instead of directory symbolic link (/D), which requires admin privileges. All I wanted is to create a link from
c:\users\user1\Desktoptoc:\users\user1\Nextcloud\Desktop.Edit: Now obviously there are more to it than just creating links to have it properly setup.
