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Yes, a TS-profile can be a roaming profile. In fact, that's what
it is supposed to be.
Most companies have not a single Terminal Server, but a couple of
them, in a Load Balanced setup. That means that a user connects to
a different Terminal Server with every connection.
Haveing a local profile on each server would be very confusing.
So my recommendation is: create 2 network shares on a file server,
and call them \profiles and \TSprofiles
Use these shares to store your users roaming profiles.
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Vera Noest
MCSE,CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
http://hem.fyristorg.com/vera/IT
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"Lei Hu" <leihu@nojunk.com> wrote on 03 nov 2004:
> Hi Vera,
>
> Thanks for your kind reply!! Please excuse my ignorance. I don't
> understand what you mean when you say: "when you log out from a
> TS session, you save your roaming profile to disk." Do you mean
> a TS session can also have a roaming profile? I thought TS saves
> profiles on the TS machine. Explain a bit to me please!!
>
> Thanks!!
>
> "Vera Noest [MVP]" <Vera.Noest@remove-this.hem.utfors.se> wrote
> in message
> news:Xns9595ACA5C6987veranoesthemutforsse@207.46.248.16...
>> Because users can have very different and conflicting settings
>> in their local profile and their TS profile.
>>
>> Imagine that the clients run Windows 98 or NT 4.0 workstation,
>> and the Terminal Server runs 2003: that will mean that settings
>> in one profile have no meaning or conflict with settings in the
>> other profile.
>>
>> Also: when you log out from a TS session, you save your roaming
>> profile to disk. If that is the same as your local roaming
>> profile, you are constently writing over your own settings, and
>> the local profile will always be the one that is saved last.
>>
>> Very likely that profiles will become corrupted as well.
>>
>> --
>> Vera Noest
>> MCSE,CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
>>
http://hem.fyristorg.com/vera/IT
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>>
>> "Lei Hu" <leihu@nojunk.com> wrote on 02 nov 2004:
>>
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> I noticed in the user properties (win2k3) there are terminal
>>> server profile and NT profile. I'm wondering why Microsoft
>>> separates these. Would this make things messy? Of course not,
>>> but why? Could you please explain the benefit to me?
>>>
>>> Thanks!!
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