roaming profile --> no "my documents"

[Davor]

Hello

I have a server with roaming profiles on, and one roaming profile WITHOUT

the "my documents" folder on it, although it is stored localy on the default

place. So the user logging on different places has no "my documents" folder

available.

I checked the group policies for the "exclude directories from the roaming

profila" and they are all default.

What I know is that the user once changed the location of his documents, and

then after some time, reverted them to default location.

Anyone knows how i can force the 'update' of his roaming profile directories

or just the "my documents" dir?

(and no, i don't want to redirect the My Doc's folder to a network server location)

Greets

Davor

[chilifrei64]

You can try deleting all the ntuser.* files or manually editing the registry for the user hive. If the gpupdate /force dont work then there is no other way to "Force" and update. There would have to be another reason why it isnt applying.

Not sure why you dont want to redirect the My Documents

A good thing to do when doing roaming profiles it to have redirected desktop, My Documents, and Application Data. This stops ALOT of data from being transfered when the user logs on and will help speed up their logon time. I have seen users with more than a gig of documents sometimes. It can take a while to transfer that...

[Davor]

There are users that use large file (edit video files...) also, others who use many small files ... using a NW location in this case is much slower that localy storing the files. When you log off, only the 'modified' files will be updated.

For small filles being slowly transfered see here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328890 and http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...Q321098&SD=MSKB

Anyway, this is totaly off subject to my question...

Greets

Davor

Edited August 21, 2005 by Davor