Windows Server® 2008 Terminal Services Resource Kit

Summary

Although roaming profiles (read-write or read-only) are the best model for storing user profiles in a terminal server environment, the complications involved in making them work well can be daunting. This chapter has explained how profiles work, including how the User Profile Service loads and saves configuration data. We’ve talked about best practices, including how to keep profiles manageable in size to speed user logons and how folder redirection and profile caching contribute to faster logons. We’ve explained how to set up Group Policy to enable automatic profile creation according to best practices and how to use security filtering and loopback policy processing to ensure that the policies are applied correctly to a terminal server ...