Roaming Profiles allow users of an Active Directory Domain to access their desktop and documents from any PC of the domain. It’s a powerful feature that can improve the productivity of the employees and make their lives easier.
The best thing about Roaming Profiles is how they are easy to set up. Before configuring a Roaming Profile, we need to create a Share. Open the Server Manager and go to the Shares tab: Create a new Share: Click Next: Specify the path of the Roaming Profiles. Add a $ to the end of the path to make the shared folder invisible: Click Next: Enable access-based Enumeration (for better security): Now it’s time to customize the permissions. We need to allow the access to Domain Users (or another Group).
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If this policy is disabled, templates are not used. If this policy is enabled, Profile Management uses the template instead of the local default profile when creating user profiles. If a user has no Citrix user profile, but a local or roaming Windows user profile exists, by default the local profile is used. It’s been quite the challenge while setting up roaming profiles for a new Citrix XenDesktop 5.5 farm in an environment that has no redirected folders and scripts to allow users to roam between workstations while maintaining the same look, feel and access to their desktop, my documents, favorites and application folders.
Click Customize permissions: Click Add: Select the group ( Domain Users in our example) and apply the permissions to This folder only. You need to enable List folders / read data and Create folders / append data: Confirm and the share will be created: Now the final step. Open the Active Directory Users and Computers panel: Open the Properties of a user and go to the Profile tab. Specify the Profile Path: servername profilefoldername%username% Mission accomplished! Your first Roaming Profile is enabled and active. To create other Roaming Profiles use the copy functionalities or manually specify the Profile Path.
You can also create a policy to automate the process.