User Profiles Redirection

Hello!
I have around 30 Terminal Servers in my environment and want to shift the user profiles on all the servers to a single location at my SAN without any cached user profile folders at all Terminal Servers. In this way, if I have to delete user profile of a
specific user, I will not be doing it on every server. Help Required.

Hi,
Thank you for posting in Windows Server forum.
For migrating User profile you can set folder redirection and specify the location of folder in a user profile.
You can use Group Policy to specify another location (in other words, "redirect" the location) for folders within user profiles. You can redirect folders either to one location for everyone or to different locations based on the security group membership
of users. You can also configure additional settings for the redirected folder. The settings that you can configure include whether to grant exclusive user rights to the folder, move the contents of the folder to the new location, apply redirection policy
to earlier Windows operating systems, or specify system behavior if the policy is removed.
The path of the user profile folder is User Configuration\Policies\Windows Settings\Folder Redirection\UserProfileFolderName
Please check below articles for more information.
Specify the Location of Folders in a User Profile
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771969.aspx
Hope it helps!
Thanks.
Dharmesh Solanki

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This issue is related to, and possibly a duplicate of, the Reader X Folder Redirection issue. This is with Reader version 10.1.0 on Windows 7. Reader version 9 works fine, and if we run Reader X in XP compatibility mode it also works fine, but then we lose protected mode operation.
In our Windows 7 deployments, there are two local disks (C: and U:). For most users the profile is relocated from C: to U: and replaced by a junction point, for example "C:\Users\fred" is really a junction point to "U:\Users\fred". This is part of our user data backup/restore mechanism and a key part of how we manage Windows images for users. This works well for most applications but we have found that it causes Reader X to crash with a MSVC++ runtime error similar to what others have reported in different circumstances. Here is what we have observed so far.
1. Reader X will crash immediately when a user attempts to start it from the desktop or start menu. Procmon suggests that this crash is related to errors encountered when the application attempts to access the user's temp folder (C:\Users\fred\AppData\Local\Temp) which is really on the U: drive.
2. Resetting the TEMP and TMP environment variables to "C:\temp" allows the application to launch, but...
3. Once Reader X is launched, some features will cause it to crash in the same way. For example displaying preferences causes it to crash immediately (Edit/Preferences in the menu or using the Ctrl-K shortcut). Procmon suggests this is related to the application trying to access the "C:\Users\fred\AppData\Roaming" folder which is really on the U: drive.
4. Reader X never crashes and works just fine if the user's profile has not been relocated from the C: drive to the U: drive. But this only applies to a small fraction of users that we manage.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I can provide Procmon traces if that might be helpful.

We were experiencing the same issue.
We solved this by creating a GPO:
First open your GP mangement console, edit the GPO to which this applies. (This is a user GPO, so make sure you are on the user Ou!)
Edit:
User Configuration\Preferences\Drive Maps
Add a new drive mapping, mapped to \\server\share\%username% (in our case we mapped to P:\)
On the Common tab, make sure the "Run in user context" is ticked.
Next create a shortcut (or multiple shortcuts)
Edit:
User Configuration\Preferences\Shortcuts
Add a shortcut to
C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Reader 11.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe (this is for Adobe Reader XI on Win x64; lookup your local path on the destination machines)
Change the start in to P:\ (the driveletter used in the drive mapping)
On the common tab also make sure this policy runs in the Logged-on user's security context.
This solved all issues at our end and we have this running with Adobe Reader X and XI
If you need to apply this to both Win x32 and x64 machines, you can apply item level targeting and choose the Operating system of choice. (If you add 2 OS'es, like Win 7 and Win 8, make sure that the option is OR and not AND).
good luck

Windows Store 8.1 won't open when user profile is redirected to another disk

Hello,
I bumped into an interesting issue lately.
While trying to redirect my user profile to a separate disk, lets say D, Windows Metro Apps including WinStore stopped from working. They launch and after the initial application screen it minimizes. Pressing the application it comes up for 1-2
seconds and then minimizes again. From what is seems the app did not load anything and it is still on the launch screen.
This is with a domain user.
On the same machine the user that has its profile on C everything works fine.
I tried the same user on a different machine without redirecting its profile (leaving it on its default location C), and everything works fine.
I tried the same thing on at least 5 machines, fresh installed and with nothing else installed and the same thing happened.
I run a few things I found around, wsreset, checkdisk, a command with develomentmode or something like that but no go.
Any one else had the same issue?

Hi John ,
How did you redirect the profile ?From the properties or something else as the link posted .If it is possible ,please share the exact steps you have done here ,we will make a test .
"This is with a domain user."
Do you mean the local account won`t take the same symptom ?
Considering you have redirected the user profile ,this may result in several issues ,it is not recommended to do this .
Here is a link for reference :
Relocation of the Users directory and the ProgramData directory to a drive other than the drive that contains the Windows directory
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/949977
"These settings should be used only in a test environment. By changing the default location of the user profile directories or program data folders to a volume other than the System volume, you cannot service your Windows installation. Any updates,
fixes, or service packs cannot be applied to the installation. Microsoft recommends that you do not change the location of the user profile directories or program data folders. This is especially true for Windows Store apps. Changing the location of %programdata%
will cause errors when you install, uninstall, or update these apps. "
Best regards
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Recreate User Profile that uses Folder Redirection

Hi all,
I would to recreate a user profile that is utilizing Folder Redirection. What I would like to do is have the user log back into their computer and have their profile to be recreated. I don't want any of the existing data to be copied over, I just want to
them to log in and have the system recreate the folder redirection, as if they were a new user logging in for the first time. We redirect the AppData, My documents, and desktop only. It's a windows 7 system as well. What's the best way I can accomplish
this?
Thanks

> and have their profile to be recreated. I don't want any of the existing
> data to be copied over
If they didn't have a local profile before, there is no "existing data".
And to be honest, I don't fully understand your question and your goal :)
Martin
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Good or bad GPOs?
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Firefow redirects a specific homepage for my Windows 7 user profile

I use Firefox at a Windows 7 machine. When I try to open the webpage "mtts.dk" firefox redirects to "mtts.dk/baker" - this only happens when my profile are loggon on the machine.
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When you have a problem with one particular site, a good "first thing to try" is clearing your Firefox cache and deleting your saved cookies for the site.
1. Clear Firefox's Cache
orange Firefox button ''or'' Tools menu > Options > Advanced
On the Network mini-tab > Offline Storage : "Clear Now"
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While viewing a page on the site, right-click and choose View Page Info > Security > "View Cookies"
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User profile in WINDOWS 8.1, 8, 7 redirected to C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile

Hi all,
When you are logging into Windows 8.1,8 or 7 using your user credential you will finaly end up as system service account or at least your profile will be recognized this way. This mean that system is now looking in C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile
for DESKTOP, DOCUMENTS etc.
I faced this probem few times on diffrent PCs. This problem has been out there for some time and peapole are tring to copy their profile to C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile. Sound no good for me.
Another way is to create new profile but it takes a lot of time and the problem sometimes comes back
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/fix-corrupted-user-profile#1TC=windows-7
I manage to find out that the issue has something to do with the change of the registry at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\S-X-X-XX-XXXXXXXXXXXX
S-X-X-XX-XXXXXXXXX is your user SID. The to REG_DWORD that are changed
FLAGS
REFCOUNT
After you change values to FLAGS 1 and REFCOUNT 0 you have to log out. Now log in and you profile should be back again.
I hope that this will save you some time and that microsoft will finaly fix whatever cause this issue.

Hi Grzegorz,
Thanks for sharing and it will be very useful for the people who will come across the similar symptom in the future .
Best regards
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Huge ntuser.dat.LOG1 since upgrade to Windows 8.1 prohibits roaming of user profile

Hello,
a few days ago my PC (part of our domain) first started to have problems with my user profile. Our domain uses roaming profiles with a size limit of 30MB. My user.dat has a size of 12.5MB. Up to now this did not cause any problems (and does not cause any for
most users of our domain having a user.dat of similar size). However, after upgrading to Windows 8.1 I repeadly have problems with my profile exceeding its maximum size. After checking my profile, I found a ntuser.dat.LOG1 with 12,5MB in size and a ntuser.dat.LOG2
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then seven days.
What is further puzzling me: ntuser.dat.LOG1 and ntuser.dat.LOG2 are not synchronized with the roaming profile on the server. At least they are not on the server. However there used to be much smaller versions of these files which could have been transfered
before the profile size exceeded its limit. Since these file seem not to be part of the roaming part of the profile, they should not count for the roaming profile size. However, they definitely do. Neglecting the registry files the largest file in my profile
is less than 500kb and there are very few files of this size. I checked locally as well as on our server.
Deleting the local profile and starting fresh using the roaming profile from our server does work for a day or two but then I run into the same problem. Especially, loosing all local profile data is inconvenient. I could start a new with a completely new
profile, but I am not convinced that it is a profile issue. In our organisation my computer is one of the first to move to Windows 8.1. Since my profile worked without problems for years now, I am worried that I ran into a Windows 8.1 issue. As users normally
start to complain about a roaming profile not synchronizing only after their local copy broke, I'd like to make sure that this is a isolated issue.
Anyone else experiencing similar issues? Any hint on how to solve the problem?
Regards,
Oliver

No, I did not find a solution. However, we moved away from roaming profiles and rely on folder redirection only. That works for us. Since we can redirect the most important folders there is no more need for roaming profiles (at least in our case).

App-V 5 sp2, Citrix user profile manager and Event IDs 19104

Hi,
the environment:
Full Infrastructure, Appv 5 sp2 Client on server 2008r2, xenapp 6.5 and Citrix user profile manager.
We get the event error 19104 on published packages. But not on all users. %APPDATA%\Microsoft\AppV\Client\VFS and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\AppV\Client\VFS are excluded per
http://blogs.technet.com/b/appv/archive/2013/10/01/support-tip-event-ids-19104-and-19105-are-logged-when-publishing-and-unpublishing-app-v-5-0-packages.aspx from my test GPO:
List of directories to exclude:
AppData\Local\Microsoft\AppV
AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\AppV\Client
Appdata\local
appdata\locallow
Still some users get app-v Applications, but some that are copies of the ones working does not get the Applications. I have tried to delete the profile. but still no closer to a solution. Anyone got this working?

Thanks Nicke, I should have tried harder to get you to come and work with me in Oslo earlier this year ;)
That thread does point on the Profile managment, and redirection of %appdata% and %localappdata% . Those to folders are not redirected. But when i run Procmon, i can see that a working user creates the c:\users\<username>\appdata\local\temp but non
working does not even try.Non working users also does not query the registry as much as working. Ofcourse this all work in my lab so the settings should be sound. but i cannot find the smoking environment variable or setting that causes it.

Configuring group policy for user profiles in Windows Server 2012 R2 Domain

Requesting some experts advise on configuring group policy for user profiles.
We will be building new Windows Server 2012 R2 Domain Controllers (Domain of 400 users).
The settings which I am concerned:
1. Folder Redirection: Desktop, Documents, Favorites.
2. Quota for Folder Redirection - 1 GB per user.
3. Map a networked drive - 1 GB per user.
4. Roaming profile - (Will ignore if it does not suit our requirement).
The question is how outlook profile will be retained / automatically moved if the users move from once computer to other?
FYI, E-mails hosted on MS Office365 and OST file size of few users more than 25GB. So, in case the user moves from one computer to other, the entire mailbox will be downloaded via internet. This consumes high bandwidth if more than 3-4 users shift per day.
Thanks a lot for your valuable time and efforts.

Hi,
>>The question is how outlook profile will be retained / automatically moved if the users move from once computer to other?
This depends on where our outlook data files are stored. If these data files are stored under
drive:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local, then these files can’t be redirected, for folder redirection can’t redirect appdata local or locallow.
However, regarding your question, we can refer to the following thread to find the solution.
Roam outlook profiles without roaming profiles
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/3908b8e0-8f44-4a34-8eb5-5a024df3463e/roam-outlook-profiles-without-roaming-profiles
In addition, regarding how to configure folder redirection, the following article can be referred to for more information.
Configuring Folder Redirection
http://technet.microsoft.com/library/cc786749.aspx
Hope it helps.
Best regards,
Frank Shen

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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Server 2012 R2 user profile disks and outlook search not working

Hi,
I`m having a problem with my setup for quite some time now with Windows Search and indexing the outlook OST files.
I`m using user profile disks in my setup but it seems that Windows Search can`t index the user profile disks, hence when i`m searching in outlook (the OST file is located in the user profile disk) with windows search enabled i`m not getting any results because
it can`t index the OST file.
If I don`t use the disks then windows search works fine but because i`m using clustered TS servers I need the profile disks and I don`t want to go back to redirects if possible..
At the moment I`ve disabled Windows Search which forces outlook to search online, it works but is slow..

Next issue that popped up, after the user logs off it will deleted the indexed data and start over the next time the user logs on..
Any fix for that?
There are three other Technet threads describing the same exact problem about indexing data being deleted when a user logs off from RDS. I'm experiencing this bug also and haven't found anything to fix it yet.
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/dffeb258-b985-452b-82f3-b66b950b98b6/user-profile-disks-with-windows-search?forum=winserverTS
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
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Error - The registration of the service "User Profile Service" has failed. The user profile can not be loaded

I am running an environment with an Active Directory and Terminal Servers.
I have searched high and low for resolutions to this error but I cannot find anything related to my situation, let me explain further.
The fixes I found are related to local users only.
When I create a new user in the Active Directory I provide the paths to the profile folder in the "Remote Desktop Profile" and "Profile tab" lets say for example \\ad001\home\%username% and \\ad001\profil\%username% .
I give rights to the user to read/write the "home" folder which is mapped for folder redirection. An I know that when the user first logs on it should create a "v2.%username%" folder upon successful logon. This is when I am
presented with the error message below:
"The registration of the service "User Profile Service" has failed.
The user profile can not be loaded"
Does anyone have any experience with this or know a suitable fix. Again this is for the "Roaming" profile creation no local.
Many thanks in advance.

Hi,
Thank you for posting in Windows Server Forum.
Did you receive for any one user or for all users?
Have you tried to solve the issue by fixing the user account profile?
For that you can adjust the registry setting “ProfileImagePath” with
particular SID of that user under below mention path.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
Also if this can’t resolve the issue you can try to delete the SID of that user or renaming the old and and then check the result again by creating new profile for that users.
More information.
You receive a "The User Profile Service failed the logon” error message
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947215
Hope it helps!
Thanks.
Dharmesh Solanki

It is Possible to Migrate Local User Profile to Roaming Profile Using USMT?

Dear All,
1st, I'm following guide at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/142682 to copy user profiles to another user, but the problem is the 'Copy to' button is not active (grey). I try
using 3rd party tools, still no change.
2nd, I try to transfer local profile on the same machine and different user using Windows Easy Transfer, it's work and all of data has been restore to a new user. But not all App Settings is restored, when I open Outlook 2010 and Windows
Live Mail, there's need to enter password again. That is not problem for me.
3rd, After migrate/transfer (2nd step) I want to migrate from local profile to roaming profile, but user profile setting on local profile is not copied to roaming profile, such as Email setting need to create new account but all data is
not problem, because I have already configure on ADUC and GPMC.
My question is:
1. How to copy or move all Application settings on AppData Local folder to roaming profile?
2. How about USMT, it is possible to migrate user profile settings from local to roaming? if is the best tools, how to do this?
Please, advice...
Thanks,
Hendra

First, I dont understand why you're using the copy profile method. I'll make the assumption that you have a domain user account that you you need it's files and settings moving to another machine.
In that scenario then there's a simple guide here:
Migrate User Accounts
For Roaming Profiles and Redirected folders; you can follow the
Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) Guide for Windows User State Virtualization (USV).
It sounds like a mouthfull but it actually makes the whole process easy. There's also a video
here.
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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.
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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,
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2008 R2 Terminal Server large Local User Profile Folder; C:\ drive size fluctuation

Hey Guys,
Have an interesting issue I'm currently working with and starting to scratch my head. I inherited this server so many things I'm still discovering.
This is TS 2008 R2 SP1, with very basic setup; Microsoft, Firefox, IE, and Adobe. I currently have many users, but only these two user profiles that have large folders. (all the space is taking out by C:\Users\%USER%\AppData\Local\Microsoft). Each folder orbiting
around 23.6GB taking 89% of the C:\ drive. Once I discovered it, I applied folder redirection policy to move all the content of the user folder's to the large drive; P:\TSProfiles\ottc01
However, the actual C:\Users\%USER%\AppData\Local\Microsoft folder still there and looks like it cannot be moved. It's almost like every instance of windows OS and Microsoft Office duplicated and resides on each user's local profile. Plus, the C:\ drive
space fluctuates and goes up and down, every time user logs on and off.
So, I'm curious is to how to correct this issue and why only these two users have such a large profiles? I can provide more info if needed, just let me know.
Thanks everyone for their time.

Hi,
On current situation, please refer to following articles and check if can help you.
User Profiles on Windows Server 2008
R2 Remote Desktop Services
Manage User Profiles for Remote Desktop Services
In addition, this issue seems to be more related to terminal service. I also suggest that you would post this question in
Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Services) Forum. I believe we will get a better assistance there.
If any update, please feel free to let me know.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Justin Gu
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