Roaming Profiles Archives • Helge Klein

Migrating from Citrix UPM back to Roaming Profiles

This article is part of Helge’s Profile Toolkit, a set of posts explaining the knowledge and tools required to tame Windows user profiles. As you may be aware Citrix Profile Management (aka UPM) automatically migrates existing roaming or local user profiles to its user store. A very nice feature, certainly, but what about the way […]

How to Configure a File Server for Hosting User Profiles

This article is part of Helge’s Profile Toolkit, a set of posts explaining the knowledge and tools required to tame Windows user profiles. Setting up a network share on a file server for hosting user profiles is not too difficult if you follow the steps outlined in this article. The recommendations I give here apply […]

Temporary User Profiles

This article is part of Helge’s Profile Toolkit, a set of posts explaining the knowledge and tools required to tame Windows user profiles. Nobody wants a temporary profile. So why do I get one? Here are the most common reasons for Windows to only issue a profile that is deleted at logoff instead of the […]

Helge’s Profile Toolkit

Helge’s Profile Toolkit is a collection of tips, tricks and tools for working with user profiles.

Free Script: User Profile Domain Migration with SetACL

This article is part of Helge’s Profile Toolkit, a set of posts explaining the knowledge and tools required to tame Windows user profiles. When administrators migrate user accounts between domains, they typically re-ACL those server resources users have access to. In plain English: they copy or move the permissions from the accounts of the old […]

Poll: Do Companies Use Local or Roaming Profiles for Desktop PCs?

Would it shock you if 35% of all enterprises used roaming profiles on their desktop PCs? Well, that was the average I got when I asked via Twitter. But is that number correct? It might or might not be. It is based on the answers of only ten people, making it hardly statistically relevant. In […]

Tag: Roaming Profiles

Migrating from Citrix UPM back to Roaming Profiles

How to Configure a File Server for Hosting User Profiles

Temporary User Profiles

Helge’s Profile Toolkit

Free Script: User Profile Domain Migration with SetACL

Poll: Do Companies Use Local or Roaming Profiles for Desktop PCs?