MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: > I'm going to be called into a meeting soon that has to do something with > roaming profiles. I'm not really aware of how these work. Going to > google search it now but thought I'd throw this out to the virtual office > at the same time. Apparently there's a VB app that our call center uses > and it allows them to see the contact information of the person who's > calling. However, the operators seem to move around the office, not > always sitting at the same desk so there's talk of some sort of use of > roaming profiles to help the operator's data move with him from desk to > desk. > > Any comments appreciated...thanks!
Roaming profiles have worked well for me, but your use case makes me say "proceed with caution". In order for roaming profiles to work sanely, your operators *must* allow time after logging off one system before logging on another. At least until the login prompt appears again. This is because Windows saves the profile to the server when the user logs off, and loads it when the user logs on. If system A is still saving the profile when system B wants to load it, well... Windows isn't so great with atomic operations. If the profile is huge (lots of pictures in My Pictures, for example) the user will wait and wait the first time logging in to a different machine, as all the pictures get copied over. The other thing to be aware of is that the user's shortcuts may or may not be valid on all systems. Say the first system's program files are in c:\Program Files but the other system has it in e:\Program Files... or perhaps the program the shortcut refers to isn't installed on system 2. But, I've been using roaming profiles since NT4 SP3 and I have to say they've mostly worked very sanely. Be aware though that I use Samba on Linux for the server, not Windows Server. I found Samba/Linux to be way more reliable than Windows Server (although, to be fair, the last Windows Server I used was Win2k), so YMMV. Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
