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        Roaming Profiles Won't Roam

Section(s): TroubleShooting
Published on Sep 12, 2006.
Last Modified on Sep 12, 2006.
Last Modified by Mitch Tulloch.
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How to troubleshoot roaming profiles that won't roam.

If you have implemented roaming user profiles on your network and the profiles aren't roaming properly, your users may have tried using the Encrypting File System (EFS) feature of NTFS to encrypt files in their My Documents folder. Unfortunately EFS is incompatibility with roaming profiles and will prevent them from working properly, and the solution is to instruct users not to use EFS in their My Documents folder.

About Mitch Tulloch

Mitch Tulloch was lead author for the Windows Vista Resource Kit from Microsoft Press, which is the book for IT pros who want to deploy, maintain and support Windows Vista in mid- and large-sized network environments. Mitch was also the author of Introducing Windows Server 2008 and technical project lead for the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Resource Kit, both books also from Microsoft Press. For more information on these and other books by Mitch, see www.mtit.com .