Add a DFS file share path in User Profile disk in RDS 2012.

I'm trying to add dfs file share path in User profile disks .I get a error message "Access denied"
Is it possible to add a dfs file share path ?

Hi,
It seems we cannot use a DFS file share path here.
I found a similar thread:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/d8eafa8f-8999-443f-a2d7-8e6dfa3a2908/user-profile-disk-store-on-a-dfs-?forum=winserverTS
In reply it mentioned "the share needs to be provided from a 2012 server directly as it needs to manage the permissions and share permissions directly".
As you tested you get an access denied error when trying to use a DFS share.
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What share/ntfs permission i've to setup for user profile disks on Server 2012 R2?

Please, let me know.
Regards!
Lasandro Lopez

Hi Lasandro,
As far as I know, share permissions for UPD are automatically set up by the management tools.
Besides, regarding how to install and configure UPD, the following article can be referred to as reference.
Installing and Configuring User Profile Disks (UPD) in Windows Server 2012
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/15304.installing-and-configuring-user-profile-disks-upd-in-windows-server-2012.aspx
In addition, regarding UPD, the following article can be referred to for more information.
Easier User Data Management with User Profile Disks in Windows Server 2012
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rds/archive/2012/11/13/easier-user-data-management-with-user-profile-disks-in-windows-server-2012.aspx
Best regards,
Frank Shen

Looking for Some Examples / Best Practices on User Profile Customization in RDS 2012 R2

We're currently running RDS on Windows 2008 R2. We're controlling user's Desktops largely with Group Policy. We're using Folder Redirection to configure their Start Menus as well.
We've installed a Server 2012 R2 RDS box and all the applications that users will need. Should we follow the same customization steps for 2012 R2 that we used in 2012 R2? I would love to see some articles on someone who has customized a user profile/Desktop
in 2012 R2 to see what's possible.
Orange County District Attorney

Hi Sandy,
Here are some related articles below for you:
Easier User Data Management with User Profile Disks in Windows Server 2012
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rds/archive/2012/11/13/easier-user-data-management-with-user-profile-disks-in-windows-server-2012.aspx
User Profile Best Practices
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/15871.user-profile-best-practices.aspx
Since you want to customize user profile, here is another blog for you:
Customizing Default users profile using CopyProfile
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2010/07/28/customizing-default-users-profile-using-copyprofile.aspx
Best Regards,
Amy
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Unable to Enable User Profile Disks in RDP server 2012R2

I am setting up a new Windows server that will act as an RDP server. The server has been built with Windows Server 2012R2.
I have the following roles and services working on the server: RD Web Access, RD Gateway, RD Licencing (with 30 user cal licences), the RD Connection broker, and the RD session host.
I have a SSL certificate configured and installed on the site, and both external and internal DNS are configured and working.
I have created and published an application collection and this is working. That is, when you go to https://remote.<servername>.org you are presented with a log in screen, users can log in with their domain accounts and then can connect to the published
applications, this is working both on our internal network and from the general internet.
So all the roles on the server are working and the collection itself is also working. However, what I cannot do is set it up so that we can use user profile disks with that collection. When I go through the Session Collection Wizard and I get to "User
Profile Disks" I can click on "Enable user profile disks" and then you can enter the options below.
I am entering the share location under location \\<servername>\<sharename>
I am using the default "store all user settings and data on the user profile disk"
Then I go to create the profile disks and I get the following error:
"Could not create the template VHD. Error Message: -2147024809
This has happened multiple times, I have done the following:
- installed all windows updates and rebooted the server, same error
- checked the share permissions AND the folder permission for that share, for testing purposes I have set permissions on both the folder and the share to allow full control to "everyone" (I also tried it with only "domain users") but
same error message.
- I have checked to see that no quotas are imposed on the disk where I am attempting to create the profile disks - this was because this was the closest thing I could find on Technet was this post:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/ru-RU/aec30527-d742-42b9-950e-85c709c4cb45/vdi-problem-creating-user-profile-disks?forum=winserverhyperv
And that was a quota issue that I am not having.
The UPD wizard says the following "the servers in the collection must have full control permission on the user profile disk share and the current user must be a member of the local Administrators group on that server"
Both of those things are true.
I have attempted to search for that specific error message (-2147024809) and have found nothing on Technet or any other site.
I am hoping someone here has some thoughts. Thanks in advance.

I was looking at both the technet article for setting up UPD as well as this walk-through:
http://thewolfblog.com/2014/02/24/user-profile-disks-for-rds-2012-2012-r2/
The step after the creation of the disk in this walk-through is to look at who has permission on the .vhdx file, now obviously I am not at that step, but that is what led me down the trail of looking at user permissions, hence my attempts to set up shares
where 'everyone' has full permissions on both the share and the folder.
I have tried to set up multiple shares for the collection, I have tried on two different disks (volumes) on the RDP server itself, I also tried setting up a share on our fileserver (which has all kinds of shares working fine) and the same error occurred
in all cases.
I also found this Technet article:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/d6469d31-6540-4075-a85f-a6e8f7c11e89/user-profile-disk-template-cannot-be-created-when-setting-up-session-collection?forum=winserverTS
So that seems close to what I am looking for, but I have checked and the exact group policy that was causing the above linked issue is not defined in our group policies, but maybe there are other group policies that are causing the issue?

User Profile Disks - Backup/Restore

I was considering deploying User Profile Disks in my 2012 R2 RDS environment instead of Roaming Profiles / Folder Redirection.
However, I have noticed a potential flaw unless someone can shed some light on this. With UPD being relatively new there is limited documentation on this.
If I backup my UPD directory (stored on a central server), and / or my Terminal Servers and I use a backup product which allows granular file-level restore. Initial testing shows that this won't work as you would want it to e.g. I can restore the VHDX
associated with the UPD but cannot restore the individual files stored on the UPD e.g. a single word document.
This leads me to think it is more beneficial to use the tried and tested Roaming Profiles / Folder Redirection combo. Or indeed, possibly deselect the UPD option for Documents etc. and combine UPD with Folder Redirection.
Or does anyone have any further info on this?

Hi,
Thank you for your posting in Windows Server Forum.
From your description I can say that you understand correctly. Sorry to say but you cannot restore the individual files stored on the UPD e.g. a single word document. As we need to backup and restore the whole UPD for the user. Previously, profiles could be
corrupted if used simultaneously on multiple computers. User profile disks are specific to the collection, so they can’t be used on multiple computers simultaneously. User profile disks can be stored on Server Message Block (SMB) shares, cluster shared volumes,
SANs, or local storage.
Please refer beneath for more information.
1.Easier User Data Management with User Profile Disks in Windows Server 2012
2. Working with User Profile Disks on Session-Based Desktop Deployments
Hope it helps!
Thanks.
Dharmesh Solanki

Migration from Roaming Profiles to User Profile Disks - RDS 2012 (R2)

Hi, I'm currently in the process of tweaking our RDS 2012 environment and have a question I hope someone can help me with....
The users who log onto the Collection are currently using roaming profiles stored on a 2008 R2 file server, but I'd like to move them onto User Profile Disks (looks to be a lot of pro's to it). Is there a way to migrate users profiles from roaming profiles
to User Profile Disks? We already have a lot of users on the farm with roaming profiles and I'm guessing if UPD is enabled, it will only take effect with new users? I need to do this without too much hassle if possible
Any help would be appreciated
Thanks

Hi Paul,
Thank you for your posting in Windows Server Forum.
Sorry to disappoint you, but you cannot able to move\migrate the roaming user profile to new User profile disk on server 2012\R2. You need to move them manually. Please refer below thread.
Is it possible to migrate local profiles to user profile disks?
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/63ab2ce0-c581-4397-ae7f-d84b8f2b6bd8/is-it-possible-to-migrate-local-profiles-to-user-profile-disks?forum=winserverTS
Hope it helps!
Thanks,
Dharmesh

HT4796 How can I take the files that were migrated from my PC to my Mac and add all those files to my current user instead of having 2 users?

How can I take the files that were migrated from my PC to my Mac and add all those files to my current user instead of having 2 users? Having to log out just to sign in on a different user to access the files is absurd.
Do I make all the files sharable to all the NOW users on the mac then just delete the files? Or can i erase my account that I made when starting up my new mac and then just use the one with the transferred files?
I just dont want to have to og in and out of 2 different accounts .. Help please.
-Nina

Sorry. /Users is a folder path. It would be similar to C:\Users (if that exists on Windows).
So, in the Finder, select Computer from the Go menu.
You'll see Macintosh HD, double-click that to open it.
In there you'll see several folders. One is Users. That is where all the user Home folders exist. Select the other account's home folder and go to step 3.
If you have any more confusion, please stop and ask. We'll get there.
If you feel more comfortable, you can just log into that other account and move the files into /Users/Shared.
Then, log into the account you wish to use and copy the files from the Shared folder and paste them into your Home folder, wherever they belong, Documents, Music, Pictures, etc. That just takes a little more work. Transferring them into Shared, and then copying into your home sets the permissions on the files so that you won't have a problem accessing them later. The steps I provided just prevent you from having to do the double move, since you are not going to use the old account once you are done.
Quick unix shorthand. If someone gives you a file path that begins with a /, that means the root of the hard drive, ie Macintosh HD (if you haven't renamed it). The path separator in unix is /, not \.
A path that starts with ~/ means your Home folder, the one inside /Users named with your account name.

Migrate User Profile Disks to new File Server

I'm looking for some guidance/best practice/advice on moving my user profile disk share. My goal is simple enough, we have a share with UPDs on a stand-alone file server. I'm in the process of configuring a scale-out file server and would like to migrate
my UPD share to that cluster once it is running smoothly. I'm running a 2012 R2 RDS farm. Is the process as simple as changing the UNC path in Server Manager and migrating the data? If so, should I copy the data then change the UNC path or the other way around?
On a related note, is there any problems of hosting the UPD share on DFS? I'm not necessarily looking to replicate the share, but it would ease a similar migration in the future if necessary as I could replicate it or use the DFS migration toolkit without
needing to alter the UNC path in the farm as the client facing path wouldn't change. Just an idea I'm toying with and would love some feedback.

I would think in a simple/flat scenario, you change the UNC path and the wizard will automatically setup the share on the target folder with the correct root permissions
then you can do a robocopy.exe /mir to move the individual UPDs over while retaining their unique permissions for each user
regarding scale out file server, you actually can't use SoFS for just a general file share workload and SoFS + DFS combination also has limited capabilities
for now, SoFS is only compatible with clustered Hyper-V, IIS, VMM and SQL workloads
you can use the old fashion clustered file server role with SMB 3.0 for the UPDs however, as 2012 now allows for proper clustered share aliases that allows you to natively use a virtual name under a clustered file share option which works nicely in your
case
setting up DFS with the above scenario seems to be supported although I haven't done it before
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831349.aspx

User Profile Disks and DFS replication

We're looking to replace a single, heavily used 2003 TS server--for performance, feature, and capacity reasons. Our users frequently have small amounts of data on their desktops/settings that we'd to persist between sessions, and they tend to have
long-running sessions (disconnecting and reconnecting while traveling, but not logging off--keeping open apps in the meantime).
The servers were originally purchased intending for 2008R2 SP1 remote desktops services, with lots of fast internal (RAID 5, 12x300GB 15K) storage. We're considering the option of using 2012 (virtual sessions, not virtual desktops) so that we can scale
out as we grow--and use the User Profile Disks.
Ideally, we'd like to maximize the usefulness of the purchased servers (and their internal storage), and not have to purchase additional hardware for shared storage--(iSCSI/External array that can be clustered). We're wondering if it's possible to pair
the User Profile Disks (UPD) with DFS replication (possibly over a dedicated NIC). Then, a user could log in to server X, connect to her local UPD (with the changes replicating to server Y's copy). If she disconnected/reconnected, the RD connection broker
would connect her to back to her existing session, and if she logs off and back on, she could connect to either server X or Y and it would all work. For maintenance, we'd be able to drainstop one server via the connection broker, perform the maintenance,
let DFS catch up, and then do the same on the second server.
Would something like this be possible? Or is it just asking for major problems?

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Is it possible to migrate local profiles to user profile disks?

Hi guys,
Is there an easy way to migrate local user profiles on an remote desktop server to user profile disks? I am replacing a Server 2008 R2 and want to start using UPD's instead on a Server 2012 R2.
Best regards,
Hasan

Hi Hasan,
Thanks for your posting in Windows Server Forum.
As per my research, you can able to achieve your data by choosing the option “Store all user settings and data in the user profile disk” would obviously capture everything normally stored under C:\users\<username>
and add that to the UPD. But please notice however that you can only select the roaming part of your user profile data.
On UPD profile is stored in a .VHDX file specific to your account which is placed on a central share. Upon logon a mount path is created under
C:\Users\<username> that points to that .VHDX file on the share. This makes the solution fully transparent to the Operating System and applications. If you’ve used UPD before you will have noticed that the filenames of the .VHDX files hold the
users SID, not the account name.
For more information, please refer below articles. (You can refer below article for Server 2012 R2)
1. Using User Profile Disks (UPD) in combination with predefining the Modern UI Start Screen on RDS 2012 (appsfolder.itemdata-ms)
2. Working with User Profile Disks on Session-Based Desktop Deployments
Hope it helps!
Thanks,
Dharmesh

User Profile Disks with Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 VDI

Hello experts!
We are building a new server setup for the office and are unable to figure out why UPD will not work. We have VDI setup and a user for instance
connecting through the RDWeb workplace will dynamically get one of the available Windows 8 Machines delivered through Hyper-V and can successfully login on this machine via Active Directory. So far so good...
However, when we activate the User Profile Disks "UPD" feature the login takes forever and the VHDX will not mount on c:\users\...
as expected within the virtual Windows 8 machine.
The UPD config is quite simple, with just the path "\\vmhost\upd\" set. This share has (now during test) full access for everyone,
both on share level and on security level, but still the VHDX will not mount.
The UVHD-template.vhdx file gets created just fine when UPD is activated, and during login through RDWeb a TEMP-UVHD-S-1-5-21-1477358240-4159876597-995667825-500.vhdx
gets created, but there it stops... The login process takes a couple of minutes by the "Windows förbereds" (roughly translated to English "Preparing Windows"), and then the user gets logged in with a temporary profile.
- The event log says (translated using Google translate):
Failed to obtain a user profile disk for the user account with SID S-1-5-21-1477358240-4159876597-995667825-500.
Make sure the location of the user profile desk can be reached, the server's computer account has read and write permissions to the site and that there is a template file for user profile disks at the site.
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Please help, it should not be that hard to achieve this.

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App-V 5.0 SP2 RDS Client with hotfix 2 breaks frequently on Windows 2012R2 with User Profile Disks enabled

Hi All,
I am at my wit's end trying to troubleshoot this, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
We are having serious stability issues with App-V 5.0 SP2 RDS in our environment with User Profile Disks enabled.
We have applied the latest hotfix but the issues persist.
The main problems are:
1. Periodically the client seems to become corrupted and all applications stop working for all users. All applications including the official Microsoft Office 2013 ones - not just our packages.
The symptoms are the same as if I change the App-V Client Service account to run under a user account instead of SYSTEM, so it suggests a file access issue. The log files also hint at this, and one of there errors is similar to this:
The virtual application 'C:\Users\rds.user9\AppData\Local\Microsoft\AppV\Client\Integration\A3EF9C01-C0E9-4AC5-B21F-DB9B1D2F700C\Root\Mindjet\MindManager 14\MindManager.exe' could not be started because the
App-V Subsystem 'Virtual Filesystem' could not be initialized. {error: 0x6740090A-0x20003}
Once this problem occurs the only way I have found to fix it is to either completely remove and reinstall the client, or (perhaps this is the big clue) rename the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\AppV\MAV\Configuration\Volumes , unpublish
an application, then republish said application.
I don't even think it matters which application gets published. The point seems to be that this 'Volumes' key gets rewritten.
I am highly suspicious that our issues are caused by User Profile disks in our RDS environment, as when I disable them on our staging collection all of these issues seem to disappear.
I have made sure all of the servers have permissions on the share (folder and share permissions). It doesn't seem to make a difference.
2. Some application fail completely with User Profile Disks enabled. If we switch the setting from "Store all settings and data on the user profile disk" to "Store Only the following folders" there seems to be some improvement,
in that at least one application that fails on the other setting starts to work.
3. We have already set that NTFS 8 dot 3 reg fix some time ago.
SOS!
We have gone live this week (not my call) and this is having disasterous consequences. :(
Thanks in advance,
John

Hi,
Thanks for your response.
I did try this a while ago without success, although it may be worth revisiting with SP2 applied.
I have left this client now.
I left them a Powershell script that deletes HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\AppV\MAV\Configuration\Volumes
and triggers an Unpublish/Publish of an application we have deployed to all of the servers.
This seems to work, but a fix would be better than a workaround.
Not really my problem now though - I did my best.
Thanks,
John

Server 2012 R2 Corrupt User Profile Disks after RDSH reboot

Hi,
We have a serious problem when using User Profile Disks, we have a pretty simple setup with a single RDGW & RDCB and the 2x RDSH with a folder share for redirected folders and another for User Profile Disks. Now if any server suffers a re-boot when users
are connected to it then their profiles gets corrupted and are issued with a temporary profile (we have a GPO to deny use of temp profiles) and so cannot log on.
I have searched the forums and found the following hotfix
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2896328 but this ONLY applies to Windows Server 2012.
Is there any published hotfix for Server 2012 R2, else we will need to look at another way of managing profiles ?
Thanks,
Donal

Hi Donal,
Sorry to say but there is no other Hotfix related to this issue for Server 2012 R2. But you can try the option of deleting the SID from registry. You can find the below path and then search for proper associated SID with user name and then delete it.
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version\ProfileList
More information.
RDS 2012: The User Profile Service Failed The Sign-In: User Profile Cannot Be Loaded
Please Note: Since the web site is not hosted by Microsoft, the link may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this information.
Hope it helps!
Thanks.
Dharmesh Solanki
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User Profile Disks - exclusions not working

I'm utilizing User Profile Disks to handle profiles between my Session Host servers. I have some odd requirements on which folders need to be included in the UPD, so for this reason, I am using the option of "Store all user settings and data on the
user profile disk" and then I am trying to exclude specific folders. However the exclusions are not working properly.
For example, I am trying to exclude AppData\Roaming\Adobe. In Server Manager under the profile disk settings, I add an exclusion of \AppData\Roaming\Adobe.
However after I connect to a RemoteApp and my profile disk is created, when I mount the UPD, I see that this folder is still created inside the VHDX. Am I entering the path incorrectly? How would I properly exclude a specific folder from being redirected
to the user profile disk?

Hi ,
This issue may occur if the user profile was manually deleted by using the command prompt or by using Windows Explorer and if the “Do not logon users with temporary profiles” Group Policy setting is configured.
A profile that is manually deleted does not remove the security identifier (SID) from the profile list in the registry.
If the SID is present, Windows will try to load the profile by using the ProfileImagePath that points to a nonexistent path. Therefore, the profile cannot be loaded.
To resolve this problem open yourself, follow these steps:
Right click Computer > Properties > Advanced system settings > Advanced tab > Under User Profiles, click Settings > In the User Profiles dialog box, select the profile that you want to delete > click Delete > Apply/OK.
Also check your Synchronization Connection Settings in User Profile Service application also make sure you are running this service application with Service Account i.e. Account with Farm Admin permission.
Please mark the same as answer if it helps you.Thanks.

User Profile Disks require SMB 3.0?

Hi all,
I have some netapp space available for User profile disks, the netapp does not support SMB 3.0 and when I try and apply the setting i get an RPC error:
0x800706BA
Similar to this thread here which suggested SMB3 was required.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/5a4e6fb8-ad10-4ac1-b3ac-55d414b3fb17/got-rpc-server-is-unavailable-error-when-configuring-user-profile-disk-to-use-a-samba-share?forum=winserverTS
So would like clarification, is SMB 3.0 a requirement?
I have managed to setup a file share on a windows 2012r2 box on storage which does not support SMB3.0 and it works... I don't know if windows is doing something funky in the back end to make it work though.
Thanks

Hi,
Thank you for posting in Windows Server Forum.
Yes, as per my research and also from below thread; I can say that “we need SMB 3 preferably” for user profile disks. Please check
this thread suggested by “Don Geddes (dgeddes [MSFT])”.
Hope it helps!
Thanks.
Dharmesh Solanki

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