Roaming profiles seem to work great at St. Michael's College.

I mapped the My Documents folder to the user's network storage in my lab
and the very next day I heard a student exclaim "My Documents goes right
to my J: drive. Cool!"

Mapping My Documents to the place where my documents are supposed to be
stored. No there's a concept that should generate hours of hand-wringing
and discussion.

--Steve Barner, South Burlington

>>> [log in to unmask] 04/14/06 8:12 PM >>>
Bjorn - 

If you could point me to instructions for mapping My Documents that
would be
great! I have not dared to use roaming profiles as I am concerned about
the
server load when 25 users log on simultaneously... Am I right in
thinking
that logon time is longer if the profile is being copied/synchronized
from
the server?

We have discussed the pros and cons of mapping drives and folders to
home
directories vs. forcing users to navigate the network (through
shortcuts) to
a share point. Some have argued that this process helps students
conceptualize "where" things are being stored. If they do not recognize
the
difference between local and network storage, it may also be difficult
for
them to find shared network folders, which we use a great deal.


Eric Hall
Technology Coordinator
Waterbury/Duxbury Schools
Washington West Supervisory Union
Waterbury, VT


> What are you looking to do?
> 
> I found it much easyer to set up each computer with a default profile
how i
> want it.  and just remap the my documents folder to the users home
folder.
> 
> If that is a route you want to take let me know and i will post some
> instructions.
> 
> Bjorn Behrendt
> Technology Director
> Proctor School District
> [log in to unmask]
> phs: (802) 459-3353
> pes: (802) 459-2225
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> School Information Technology Discussion <[log in to unmask]> on
> Wednesday, April 12, 2006 at 3:35 PM -0500 wrote:
> Any one have experience with roaming profiles?
>  
> - how effective
> - how much band width
>  
> Thanks
>  
> Ken
> 





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