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

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tool successfully. However, when use this script (Remap Printer Connections) to re-map Printer Connections, the script seems to not be ran as expected. Meanwhile,
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Hi,
I`m having a problem with my setup for quite some time now with Windows Search and indexing the outlook OST files.
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This proces never finishes because the server is under a constant load, therefore search never works as it should.
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Hi,
I have been searching for a solution for this issue in a client environment for a few months now.
Our environment is similar, RDS on Server 2012 R2 with Outlook in cached mode and the search service enabled However we are using Outlook 2010.
I disagree that the issue should be marked as resolved.
I believe you are experiencing the same issue as I and these 2 other people:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/e6d4e3e6-37ef-488c-86ac-d135e3f2353f/windows-search-index-and-user-profile-disks?forum=winserverTS
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/dc6328e9-96dc-4377-a23f-0fb7020e5daa/indexing-user-profile-disk-on-a-file-server-or-on-the-rdsh-server?forum=winserverTS
When users logon, the search service begins indexing and if the user is logged on long enough it completes user files, including the OST.
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What share/ntfs permission i've to setup for user profile disks on Server 2012 R2?

Please, let me know.
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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
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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
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Frank Shen

Log on as batch task with User Profile Disks

We have a Windows Server 2012 R2 Remote Desktop deployment, where we use user profile disks stored on a central file server.
We are trying to run a scheduled tasks as a user, while they are logged off.
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Hi Amy,
The task itself isn't failing, but the action the task executes fails, because it has logged in with a temporary profile.
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The report 'PATH_TO_SPREADSHEET.xlsx' failed to run with the following error: 'Cannot run the macro 'JetMenu'. The macro may not be available in this workbook or all macros may be disabled.'.
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I think what I need to happen, is for the server to mount the users User Profile Disk, so that it does not load a temporary profile.
Many thanks
Eds

Pooled VDI - User Profile disk vs roaming profiles

Hi,
Apologies is this is the wrong forum, cannot find a VDI specific one...
I am looking at deploying a Server 2012 VDI solution for a college. The VM's would be pooled and based on a single image which contains all the required software for students. I want zero persistence, in a similar way which can be achieved in
the physical world with something like deepfreeze. As students will still use physical desktops in other areas I would like their roaming profiles to still be used.
With that in mind would the VDI solution work as follows...?
Student logs on
Roaming profile is loaded from existing share to a temporary disk
students logs off
roaming profile is saved back to network share
temporary disk is disposed
VDI image is reverted back to pre logon
This would be a great solution and would make these student areas much easier to manage.
Thanks

Hi,
You can setup UPD to meet your needs.
For more details, please refer to the following:
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
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
Working with User Profile Disks on Session-Based Desktop Deployments
http://www.virtualizationadmin.com/articles-tutorials/vdi-articles/general/working-with-user-profile-disks-on-session-based-desktop-deployments.html
Hope this helps.
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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,
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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?

Server 2012 RDS - User Profile Disks - Errors during Logoff

I have set up a test Server 2012 RDS collection (Single Server for now) and implemented User Profile disks.
I have two problems.
First: My generic test user can connect and does successfully use the user profile disk as expected. However, at
logoff, the system event log contains these errors:
The error (NTFS 137) is: The default transaction resource manager on volume C:\Users\ts3.test encountered a non-retryable error and could not start. The data contains the error code.
The warning (NTFS 50) that concerns me is:
It appears that the user profile disk is being "disabled" or "disconnected"
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Second:
Update: A post from Mike Connor on the following page: -LINK- solved
the problem described below.
My administrative user always logs on now with a temporary profile. At the beginning, the UPD was working and mounting. That stopped working. In attempting to troubleshoot, I logged the admin user off and deleted the UPD disk
file from the share. I remember it working again after generating a new UPD disk file in the share. Soon, it quit working again. I deleted the UPD disk file again from the share and ever since, it has never regenerated a new UPD and
always logs on with a temporary profile.

We experience less to zero problems after an outage with our User Profile Disks when we use the option: "Store all user settings and data on the user profile disk". Other then when we use the other checkbox (even though all checkboxes
underneath are checked).
Our test setup was, an RDSH 2012 r2 server(s), with an 2012r2 server holding the share.
We first tried the "store all user settings" for the User Profile Disk, we logged several accounts onto our RDSH Server we then disconnected our server which holds the share to simulate an outage. After about 5 minutes we connected the
server again holding the share. When the share comes back online, we logged off the users and logged them back in. The result was a valid profile for all the accounts including their last changes from before the share got disconnected.
The exact same test was done with the option: "Store only the following folders on the user profile disk" with all checkboxes underneath checked, which gave us corrupt profiles.. We also did these tests by giving the server holding the share a reboot instead
of an disconnect from network. This gave us the same result. Each test was done at least 2 to 3 times..
I hope others can confirm this as well in their situation, as it seems to be a bug within that specific checkbox.
Looking at the above tests, the best way in my test cases were to exclude the default folders (f.e.: \Documents) if you would like to redirect them instead of using them inside your User Profile Disk. Redirects can be done through GPO Folder redirection
options or GPO registry combined with Environment Variables.
Even after several attemps to simulate an outage, i get left with consistent profiles. I've now also included an hard reset of my virtual machine (that gave the same results as a disconnect of the network card). This was all done through using the: "Store
all user settings in the user profile disk". The other option left us with inconsistent profiles. I hope others can confirm this as well..
Looks to me that the type of connection towards the User profile happens different. You can see this when looking at the C:\users\<username> and subfolders if you use user profile disks. The 2 options show different symbols as well.

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
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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.
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both on share level and on security level, but still the VHDX will not mount.
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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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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

Windows Server 2012 R2 RDS + User profile Disks + App-V = Explorer.exe crashing all of the time

I have built a new RDS farm on Windows Server 2012 R2 with two Session Hosts and a combined Connect Broker/Web Access server. I had the farm up and running with User Profile Disks and all seemed OK. However, as soon as I installed the App-V 5.0 SP2 RDS
client on the session hosts, the explorer.exe process started crashing for any user logging in via the Web Access site. The process crashes and restarts every five to ten seconds. It's the same for administrators. If they log in via Web Access explorer.exe
crashes, but if they RDP directly to one of the session hosts explorer.exe is fine. If I reboot the session hosts, then the first user to log in via Web Access has a stable desktop session (and appears to have a new profile as well). However, if that user
logs out and back in again, explorer.exe starts crashing again. The only applications I have packaged at the moment are Office 2013 and Firefox.
I tried disabling User Profile Disks, but this caused a whole bunch of other problems and I eventually lost the ability to log in at all via Web Access (errors about the user profile service). As this is a small pre-production environment I completed scrapped
all of the servers and rebuilt from scratch. Again, everything appeared fine until I installed the App-V client, then explorer.exe started crashing repeatedly for all users.
Has anyone come across this issue before? I have tried installing the App-V 5.0 SP2 Hotfix Package 2, but this didn't help. I have read in a few forums that App-V doesn't work very well with User Profile Desks, but I have not heard of this particular issue.
Similarly, SP2 seems to have a lot of problems, so I am going to try removing App-V RDp Client SP2 and installing SP1. I ahev also deleted User Profile Disks for the test users to recreate their profiles, but this didn't help either.
Any other suggestions welcome!

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Exception code: 0xc06d007e
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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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Server 2012 RDS - User Profile Disks

Hello,
I'm implementing Server 2012 RDS session-based.
Can I increase the limit of User Profile Disk after it is initially set?
Is it ok that my Admin user has a User Profile Disk i.e. no local profile on the server as they did previously.
Are PSTs supported on User Profile Disks - previously PSTs were unsupported on network share - User Profile Disks are on network share.
I had an issue where a UPD was created for a user - I then delete the UPD. I then logged in as the user (a domain admin) and expected a local profile to be created - this didn't happen. A temporary profile was created instead. This was unexpected.

Hi Gary,
You can try to change the size of User Profile Disk by mounting .Vhdx file. Please refer below thread for information.
Resize User Profile Disks
As per my research, i can suggest you to use admin local user profile on server.You can get more information for UPD on below listed article.
1. Easier User Data Management with User Profile Disks in Windows Server 2012
2. Using User Profile Disks (UPD) in combination with predefining the Modern UI Start Screen on RDS 2012 (appsfolder.itemdata-ms)
Hope it helps!
Thanks,
Dharmesh

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