Using Roaming Profiles with Terminal Services

This section discusses managing roaming profiles in a terminal server environment, including:

  • How to convert an existing local profile to a roaming profile.

  • How to use Group Policy to automatically set up the roaming profile storage area.

  • How to create the Group Policy infrastructure that supports these policies, including security filtering and loopback policy.

  • How to manage roaming profiles cached on the terminal servers.

Converting an Existing Local Profile to a Roaming Profile

In many cases, you won’t start over with new roaming profiles but will have local profiles already in use that you must convert to roaming profiles.

Note

It’s very unlikely that you would convert a local profile that a user has been ...

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