CREATING ROAMING PROFILE

WHAT IS ROAMING PROFILE

A roaming profile can only be created by your Domain Administrator and is stored on a server. This profile is available every time you log on to any computer on your network. Changes made to your roaming user profile are updated on the server.

CREATING ROAMING PROFILE

• In your Domain Controller, login as domain administrator.
• Create a folder with any name (Eg. ROAM) and share it with everyone. Ensure the drives in which you are creating the shared folder is formatted with NTFS File System.
• Open, Active Directory Users and Computers
• Create a user with name U1 and open the Properties of U1 account.
• Click on PROFILE tab.
• In Profile Path type, \\servername\ROAM\U1 and click OK.

VERIFICATION

Login with U1 account in any of the client machine (Client 1) and try to save some files and folders on desktop and log off from that machine.

Next time, login with U1 account from another client machine (Client 2) and you can see all the data saved on desktop of Client 1 machine. But, this wouldn't happen in the case of Local Profile.

Isn't that beneficial !!!

Note: You got to log out from that specific machine only then the files\folder created will save on the server.