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George Hewitt
Asked: 2010-08-26 08:29:09 +0800 CST

Local Settings in Windows 7 Roaming Profiles

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We're planning a migration of several hundred desktops to Windows 7 and hitting a snag in our test lab with roaming profiles. Bit of background:

  • Win 2003 FFL
  • Currently all XP machines
  • Roaming profiles, working fine
  • Win7 test PCs are in Computer container, not in seperate OU so as yet not affected by a myriad of GPO.

We've just started using a few test machines both here in our office and in test. The profile directory is created on the server as username.V2 but contains ALL of the profile, including Local and LocalLow. For many users this consists of many gigs of Outlook cache!

Does anyone have any thoughts? I thought Windows was meant to exclude these dirs by default?

windows-7 roaming-profile

1 Answers

  1. The Local and LocalLow aren't supposed to roam with the user. M$ has said that the data stored in these folders are usually too large to roam. See this:

    Managing Roaming User Data Deployment Guide

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