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by edgeymaster

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We ran into a problem at the office lately. We have 16 poeple that log on and use roaming profiles. Not all 16 log on at same time. We may have 4 that are logged on at one time. We use win 2003 business server with domain. We use xp as the workstations. When users log on with thier user name and password, it gets to loading profile and it takes about 4-5 minutes for the profile to load. What can I do to speed this up? I also noticed the c: drive on the server keeps filling up and I have to take space from a storage drive and move it over to the c: drive. Any help would be great. Thanks

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by skdtech

If they have a large number of files or even just a few Large files it can take awhile to synchronize their profile folders between the server and the workstation. If you remap their Documents folders to a network folder then the workstation does not have to download their files to the local drive when they log on. The hand off though is that instead of working from a local store of their files all day they will be accessing them across the network when they open or save them, could cause some overall slowing of the network throughout the day but you won't have the massive hit when they logon.

by edgeymaster

Thier profiles are located on the server. What do you mean by mapping thier documents folder to a network folder? And which one?? Thier profile folder is stored on a partition of the hard drive.

by rjluvkc

I believe what SKDTech is referring to is My Document Redirection.
Instead of all users having all items in their My Documents folder on the DC and then being copied to any machine they log into...you create a network share for Document Redirection..the files all stay there. When a user is logged in it just maps that My Document to that share.
Here take a look at this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/221837

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