Setting up Roaming Profiles and Folder Redirection for a new user.
This page will document the steps I took to set up roaming profiles for ACS users and will therefore use ACS as a prefix for all names. You should obviously use the prefix of your own OU.
Three notes to begin with:
1. I am assuming some minimal level of administrative knowledge that I'm simply too lazy to document here. Contact me if any of these steps are absolutely foreign to you.
2. The group ACS Local Users is frequently referenced in this document. ACS Users is a Domain Local group with a single member, a Global group named ACS Users. In ACS Users are all the staff members of ACS. I routinely use this more restrictive ACS Local Users group in place of the Everyone group or the Authenticated Users group and to date have encountered no problems.
3. The biggy. Roaming Profiles and Folder Redirection are applied to machines, not users. If one user of a machine is set to roam, all users are set to roam. It's all or nothing, based upon the machine.
I'm assuming that your server is adequately secured. Pay particular attention to Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-64, also referenced in Q Article 327522. I modified the permissions recommended in this article somewhat further, by removing the Everyone group from the list entirely and replacing Users with Authenticated Users. I did not want to go so far as to use ACS Local Users here, in case this server needed to be accessed by someone from outside that particular group.
I'm also assuming that you have the AD management tools installed and are familiar with their use. If not, see the AD home page to download and install them.
The File Server
1. Create a folder on a server named Users.
2. Set the permissions on this folder to