We have two companies in house here, both CEO's were having problems where their roaming profiles were recopying old or deleted stuff back to their laptops. I renamed their server copy to force it to copy back up from the laptops (this is after finding out that caching was enabled on that share and disabling it). They logged back into the network and their new profile was recreated, logged off and it took a while as it should have to copy stuff back to the server, but the next time they logged in to their systems everything was gone. My documents consisted only of the folder structure of everything they had in there but no files.

What the heck is going on?

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Scott

What I setup for my roaming users was a redirected My Documents folder to a network share rather than leaving it as part of the profile. After it's been redirected, you can setup the My Documents folder to be available offline which will enable the synchronization.

If I'm understanding your problem correctly, you may have a conflict between the roaming profiles automatic caching and files being synched as offline folders. Removing the profile caching from the equation may help.

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JT Lovell


"Scott McDonald" <Sdgmcdon@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:uRh0R$xpEHA.3300@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
We have two companies in house here, both CEO's were having problems where their roaming profiles were recopying old or deleted stuff back to their laptops. I renamed their server copy to force it to copy back up from the laptops (this is after finding out that caching was enabled on that share and disabling it). They logged back into the network and their new profile was recreated, logged off and it took a while as it should have to copy stuff back to the server, but the next time they logged in to their systems everything was gone. My documents consisted only of the folder structure of everything they had in there but no files.

What the heck is going on?

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Scott

I already did that. I think what may have happened was a problem of lack of patience. I think they disconnected the systems while they were still copying the data up to the server thus corrupting the profiles.

I would do redirection but we tried that here once and I found it nearly impossible to reverse with completely deleting the user account and all references to that user on the server and the users system - it was really messy so I don't care to go down that road again especially not with the CEO's.

Thanks though.

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Scott
"JT Lovell" <jt_lovell@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:%23Ri6RyypEHA.3148@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
What I setup for my roaming users was a redirected My Documents folder to a network share rather than leaving it as part of the profile. After it's been redirected, you can setup the My Documents folder to be available offline which will enable the synchronization.

If I'm understanding your problem correctly, you may have a conflict between the roaming profiles automatic caching and files being synched as offline folders. Removing the profile caching from the equation may help.

--
JT Lovell


"Scott McDonald" <Sdgmcdon@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:uRh0R$xpEHA.3300@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
We have two companies in house here, both CEO's were having problems where their roaming profiles were recopying old or deleted stuff back to their laptops. I renamed their server copy to force it to copy back up from the laptops (this is after finding out that caching was enabled on that share and disabling it). They logged back into the network and their new profile was recreated, logged off and it took a while as it should have to copy stuff back to the server, but the next time they logged in to their systems everything was gone. My documents consisted only of the folder structure of everything they had in there but no files.

What the heck is going on?

--
Scott

Another option would be to not have them roam at all. They have laptops already, so you might just give them a third-party backup or synchronization solution rather than using roaming profiles at all. Of course if they're using other PCs as well as the laptops this may not work for you.

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JT Lovell


"Scott McDonald" <Sdgmcdon@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:e$cWW5ypEHA.2684@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
I already did that. I think what may have happened was a problem of lack of patience. I think they disconnected the systems while they were still copying the data up to the server thus corrupting the profiles.

I would do redirection but we tried that here once and I found it nearly impossible to reverse with completely deleting the user account and all references to that user on the server and the users system - it was really messy so I don't care to go down that road again especially not with the CEO's.

Thanks though.

--
Scott
"JT Lovell" <jt_lovell@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:%23Ri6RyypEHA.3148@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
What I setup for my roaming users was a redirected My Documents folder to a network share rather than leaving it as part of the profile. After it's been redirected, you can setup the My Documents folder to be available offline which will enable the synchronization.

If I'm understanding your problem correctly, you may have a conflict between the roaming profiles automatic caching and files being synched as offline folders. Removing the profile caching from the equation may help.

--
JT Lovell


"Scott McDonald" <Sdgmcdon@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:uRh0R$xpEHA.3300@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
We have two companies in house here, both CEO's were having problems where their roaming profiles were recopying old or deleted stuff back to their laptops. I renamed their server copy to force it to copy back up from the laptops (this is after finding out that caching was enabled on that share and disabling it). They logged back into the network and their new profile was recreated, logged off and it took a while as it should have to copy stuff back to the server, but the next time they logged in to their systems everything was gone. My documents consisted only of the folder structure of everything they had in there but no files.

What the heck is going on?

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Scott

Scott McDonald wrote:
I agree with the other post that suggests redirecting My Documents to the
user's home directory. If you keep profiles *tiny* you rarely have problems
with them roaming. Best to do this with a group policy, although you can
redirect it manually in each profile if you wish.

I would but for these two invisibility and not having to schedule/okay it etc is the primary concern. It has to be completely and totally invisible and has to happen at random times preferably everytime they are on the network and has to be completely non-intrusive including taking up resources while they work. That pretty much eliminated everything I've ever heard of except roaming profiles.

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Scott
"JT Lovell" <jt_lovell@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:uBQ709ypEHA.3424@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
Another option would be to not have them roam at all. They have laptops already, so you might just give them a third-party backup or synchronization solution rather than using roaming profiles at all. Of course if they're using other PCs as well as the laptops this may not work for you.

--
JT Lovell


"Scott McDonald" <Sdgmcdon@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:e$cWW5ypEHA.2684@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
I already did that. I think what may have happened was a problem of lack of patience. I think they disconnected the systems while they were still copying the data up to the server thus corrupting the profiles.

I would do redirection but we tried that here once and I found it nearly impossible to reverse with completely deleting the user account and all references to that user on the server and the users system - it was really messy so I don't care to go down that road again especially not with the CEO's.

Thanks though.

--
Scott
"JT Lovell" <jt_lovell@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:%23Ri6RyypEHA.3148@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
What I setup for my roaming users was a redirected My Documents folder to a network share rather than leaving it as part of the profile. After it's been redirected, you can setup the My Documents folder to be available offline which will enable the synchronization.

If I'm understanding your problem correctly, you may have a conflict between the roaming profiles automatic caching and files being synched as offline folders. Removing the profile caching from the equation may help.

--
JT Lovell


"Scott McDonald" <Sdgmcdon@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:uRh0R$xpEHA.3300@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
We have two companies in house here, both CEO's were having problems where their roaming profiles were recopying old or deleted stuff back to their laptops. I renamed their server copy to force it to copy back up from the laptops (this is after finding out that caching was enabled on that share and disabling it). They logged back into the network and their new profile was recreated, logged off and it took a while as it should have to copy stuff back to the server, but the next time they logged in to their systems everything was gone. My documents consisted only of the folder structure of everything they had in there but no files.

What the heck is going on?

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Scott

Scott McDonald wrote:
You can use roaming profiles and manually redirect the My Documents folder
to, say, c:\data, c:\bigkahuna, whatever you like. Just don't keep them in
the profiles directories or you will nearly always have problems roaming.

The issue of syncing/maintaining a copy of the data on the server is another
one. There's offline files, but I have had too many problems with it. I use
secondcopy2000 - www.centered.com - on all my clients' laptops. It can run
automatically in the background (but it won't work w/open files)...it's not
100% invisible, but it works quite well. I set up My Docs to point to a
local folder I've created, and have SC sync that folder to the user's home
directory on the server.