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r00tb00t

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11/10/2009 5:48 PM
Hey Guys, We are using roaming profiles and currently I am setting up a VPN so that our laptop users can work from home however I am struggling to find a way (which I thought would be perfectly achievable via Group Policy) to force a user to use a local profile so that I can assign said policy to all laptop users so they aren't syncing their profile over the VPN. We are running a Windows 2003 R2 Standard Edition x64 DC with all WinXP Pro SP3 clients. Thank you for your time; Regards, James Jonathan Swift<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/jonathan_swift.html> - "May you live every day of your life."

y2k

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11/10/2009 6:33 PM
Hi James The setting you are looking for is under Computer Configuration > Admin Templates > System > User Profiles > Only Allow local user profiles Hopefully you have all your laptops in a single OU, or separate from your desktops, so you can just enable this for all your laptops without affecting the roaming profiles on your desktops. We use it for servers in our environment as we don't want admins with roaming profiles having the roaming profile loading on the server Hope this helps M

darren

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11/10/2009 6:39 PM
James- Normally roaming profiles don't download or upload except at logon and logoff, which assumes your VPN is available during these times? Is this the case? If so, then have you looked at tweaking the per-computer Admin Template settings that control things like slow link for profile upload? In the past, I've used that to tell Windows to just not even try to upload or download the profile is a certain link speed is detected. Its not precise but may help here. Darren From: activedir-owner@mail.activedir.org [mailto:activedir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of James Bensley Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 9:46 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Force Local Profile Hey Guys, We are using roaming profiles and currently I am setting up a VPN so that our laptop users can work from home however I am struggling to find a way (which I thought would be perfectly achievable via Group Policy) to force a user to use a local profile so that I can assign said policy to all laptop users so they aren't syncing their profile over the VPN. We are running a Windows 2003 R2 Standard Edition x64 DC with all WinXP Pro SP3 clients. Thank you for your time; Regards, James Jonathan Swift<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/jonathan_swift.html> - "May you live every day of your life."

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