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We have downsized our office (since everyone is working from home). So want to set up some "hot desks" so if they do wish to come in and use office facilities they have a place to sit.

 

How do I share user profiles between 2/3 computers? So no matter which PC they sit at they get there own 'desktop' experiance.

 

Never done this, dont know what to google. Is it ActiveDirectory?

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Active Directory domain, roaming profiles in the group policies. or profile redirection also in the group policies... one of those but not both. 

 

that in short.

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5 hours ago, Anghammarad said:

Active Directory domain, roaming profiles in the group policies. or profile redirection also in the group policies... one of those but not both. 

 

that in short.

I have used roaming profiles in the past with good results. May want to look into testing that sort of setup. 

 

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On 9/14/2021 at 6:23 PM, m9x3mos said:

I have used roaming profiles in the past with good results. May want to look into testing that sort of setup. 

 

Depends on the environment... 

 

Roaming Profiles are superb when using terminal servers, the "bad" about roaming profiles, they need to get loaded from a file server on logon, and written back on logoff. Which can take quite some time, depending on the profile size. 

 

Redirection is nice because of no copying to and back, but then, when you work outside the LAN, you won't have access to it. 

 

Then again, you can set to which OU which Profile policy is attached to. to exempt for example mobile users (laptops).

Main System:

Anghammarad : Asrock Taichi x570, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X @4900 MHz. 32 GB DDR4 3600, some NVME SSDs, Gainward Phoenix RTX 3070TI

 

System 2 "Igluna" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX.

System 3 "Inskah" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX.

 

On the Road: Acer Aspire 5 Model A515-51G-54FD, Intel Core i5 7200U, 8 GB DDR4 Ram, 120 GB SSD, 1 TB SSD, Intel CPU GFX and Nvidia MX 150, Full HD IPS display

 

Media System "Vio": Aorus Elite AX V2, Ryzen 7 5700X, 64 GB Ram DDR4 3200 Mushkin, 1 275 GB Crucial MX SSD, 1 tb Crucial MX500 SSD. IBM 5015 Megaraid, 4 Seagate Ironwolf 4TB HDD in raid 5, 4 WD RED 4 tb in another Raid 5, Gainward Phoenix GTX 1060

 

(Abit Fatal1ty FP9 IN SLI, C2Duo E8400, 6 GB Ram DDR2 800, far too less diskspace, Gainward Phantom 560 GTX broken need fixing)

 

Nostalgia: Amiga 1200, Tower Build, CPU/FPU/MMU 68EC020, 68030, 68882 @50 Mhz, 10 MByte ram (2 MB Chip, 8 MB Fast), Fast SCSI II, 2 CDRoms, 2 1 GB SCSI II IBM Harddrives, 512 MB Quantum Lightning HDD, self soldered Sync changer to attach VGA displays, WLAN

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7 hours ago, Anghammarad said:

Depends on the environment... 

 

Roaming Profiles are superb when using terminal servers, the "bad" about roaming profiles, they need to get loaded from a file server on logon, and written back on logoff. Which can take quite some time, depending on the profile size. 

 

Redirection is nice because of no copying to and back, but then, when you work outside the LAN, you won't have access to it. 

 

Then again, you can set to which OU which Profile policy is attached to. to exempt for example mobile users (laptops).

Oh that's very true. Good catch. Everything I was working on was all on local lan. 

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9 hours ago, Anghammarad said:

Depends on the environment... 

 

Roaming Profiles are superb when using terminal servers, the "bad" about roaming profiles, they need to get loaded from a file server on logon, and written back on logoff. Which can take quite some time, depending on the profile size. 

Since Win7, it syncs with the server as the user is logged in. No more waiting ages to logoff.

 

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