Topic: Setting a limit to the Roaming profiles

[David Thomas]

hi,

When you specify SME 6 as the domain controller, you may also choose to have Roaming profiles activated. What is the procedure to limit the size of the roaming profiles, say no more than 2 MB or 10 MB for each user.

Does it make any difference if the clients are using different operating systems, mainly Windows XP and Windows 98.

Thanks in advance,
David

[Michael Herger]

> When you specify SME 6 as the domain controller, you may also
> choose to have Roaming profiles activated. What is the
> procedure to limit the size of the roaming profiles, say no
> more than 2 MB or 10 MB for each user.

This is a setting you can define in your local group policies (W2000/XP): run gpedit.msc, "User configuration", "Administrative templates", "System", "Limit profile size" (2000), "User Profiles / Limit profile size" (XP). But 2MB will never be enough. We've set it to 30MB which is ok. There are some programs which store a lot of their data in the profile. It's best to configure them differently (eg. Opera's cache folder, Adobe application etc.).

If you want to manage this centrally google for "poledit", MS' former policy editor. It allows to to create .pol files which you can put in the server's netlogon share. And don't ask me for details .

> Does it make any difference if the clients are using
> different operating systems, mainly Windows XP and Windows 98.

Yes. This setting only exists with Windows >2000.

Michael

[David Thomas]

Thank you Michael, your notes are very helpful.

David