30.4. Managing Roaming Profiles

Roaming profiles require considerable thought if you have different operating systems, users roaming between branches with limited network links, and Remote Desktop Services. You can do some advanced management of profiles by using Group Policy, as you saw earlier when you granted rights to automatically generated profiles to Administrators.

Let's look at a few examples where you might have issues. If you have a farm of Remote Desktop servers, then a user could log into any one of them. If you have 1,000 users logging into 10 servers, you could end up with 10,000 cached roaming profiles. That's a lot of disk space being wasted.