Server 2012 r2 remote desktop services roaming profile
It rapidly became a crowded space, with other vendors – such as RES, AppSense, Liquidware Labs, Scense and many others – extending, augmenting, or even outright replacing the traditional roaming profile functionality.Ī roaming profile basically allows you to copy the user-based filesystem and HKEY_CURRENT_USER Registry hive to a defined network location at logoff (usually a user’s home drive area or a dedicated profiles share). Microsoft was the first entrant into the market that grew up around user mobility, allowing network-based profiles to persist across multiple desktop sessions. Hopefully this post makes you aware of issues that can arise from migrating UPD’s.Roaming profiles are a case in point. Copies file ownership and ACL information. Typically, Xcopy resets read-only attributes. Copies folders and subfolders, including empty ones. To preserve existing permissions without adding inheritable permissions from the parent folder, use the utilities such as Robocopy.exe To add an object's original permissions to inheritable permissions when you copy or move an object, use the Xcopy.exe utility with the –O and –X switches. The object’s original permissions will be added to inheritable permissions in the new location. To preserve permissions when files and folders are copied or moved, use the Xcopy.exe utility with the /O or the /X switch. HOW TO: Copy a Folder to Another Folder and Retain its Permissions The issue with this is all of the users profile settings will not be available, and, any changes made in that session will be lost.Īdditionally you may see Event ID’s 1511 recorded in the event viewer for every login attempt. If the User Profile Disk loses permission for its corresponding user, that user will be logged on with a temporary profile. How permissions are handled when you copy and move files and foldersĪll this being said, when the permissions of a User Profile Disk loses its default permissions (especially in Scenario 2), you will likely end up with problems in your Remote desktop Services environment. The differences and conditions are neatly outlined in the below articles: Security attributes are retained and carried Security attributes are NOT retained and NOT carried
SERVER 2012 R2 REMOTE DESKTOP SERVICES ROAMING PROFILE WINDOWS
For Example (From a Volume on Drive A to a volume on Drive B:), Windows NT permissions Architecture is not going to favor you here.īelow are summary highlights between copy and Move among Same/different Volumes. On the Other Hand you Move between different drives. If so, then you have nothing to worry about as this not difficult. You plan to migrate the UPD files on within the same Drive (Migrating the files that are one volume to another volume on the same disk) This is when you should consider the Windows NT permission architecture. You have the user profile disks created on Drive A.įor some reason such as (Space constraints/ Server migration / Data migration) you are forced to move your User Profile disks to a different location. In other words when a user profile disk is created, the ACL (Access Control List) is added with the below default permissions:Īll other user permissions are removed to avoid the user profile disk being accessed other than the corresponding user. Since every user has their own user profile disk, each disk is created with explicit permissions.
UPD takes advantage of the NTFS attributes to control the permissions of objects. User Profile Disks (UPD) store user and application data on a single virtual disk that is dedicated to one user. Today we will discuss User Profile Disk migrations.Īs you may know, Microsoft released a new feature to manage user profiles in Remote Desktop Services (RDS) deployments called User Profile Disks. Good morning AskPerf! This is Sree Krishna and Ramesh from Remote Desktop Services Team.
First published on TECHNET on May 06, 2015