Question : Local vs Roaming Profiles (with a bit of offline folder synchronisation chucked in)!

I've been tasked with developing a solution to combat the age old issue of staff storing a massive amount of data in their roaming profile which ultimately ends up causing bandwidth issues (specifically when working between sites).

The current solution:

120 users
100 are laptop users
3 sites - 2 with 6MB pipes, 1 in the US so travelling over the public internet
Each site has the users home drive / profile drive
Roaming profiles throughout
Some user profiles approx 2 - 5 GB due to documents

Proposed solution 1:

Folder redirection for My Documents to home drive
Off-line folder syncronisation for laptop users
Roaming profiles in effect
Group Policy enabled to set restrictions on profile size (not sure which settings yet)

Proposed solution 2:
Folder redirection for My Documents to home drive
Off-line folder syncronisation for laptop users
Local profiles in effect
Group policy enabled to run login scripts xcopying favourites, desktop icons, local settings to a share on their home server

My questions are:

a)  Whether anyone has experience of implementing the above and whether there are any pitfalls to using either of the solutions.  
b)  Whether anyone has any improved suggestions as to a workable solution.

Look forward to any help on this!  Thanks.

Answer : Local vs Roaming Profiles (with a bit of offline folder synchronisation chucked in)!

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc778656.aspx
Configuring User State Management Features


i will read through this document for your requirement.
i will redirect almost everything i can if you want to use roaming profile ...

it is very hard to suggest something to you what you want to achieve.


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