Roaming Profile Policy - Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - POLICY MANAGEMENT REFERENCE 10.3 30-03-2010 Management Manual

2.6 Roaming Profile Policy

The Roaming Profile policy allows you to create a user profile that is stored in a network path. An
administrator can either use the roaming profile stored in the user's home directory or the profile
stored in the network directory location.
IMPORTANT: Because of the security settings in Microsoft Vista, administrators must manually
add the appropriate security rights to the user registry hive to enable roaming profiles. For more
information, see
Windows Share Location to Users on a Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, or Windows 7
Device," on page
1 In ZENworks Control Center, click the Policies tab.
2 In the Policies list, click New, then click Policy to display the Select Policy Type page.
3 Select Roaming Profile Policy, click Next to display the Define Details page, then fill in the
fields:
Policy Name: Provide a name for the policy. The policy name must be different than the name
of any other item (group, folder, and so forth) that resides in the same folder. The name you
provide displays in ZENworks Control Center.
Folder: Type the name or browse to and select the ZENworks Control Center folder where you
want the policy to reside. The default is
organize your policies.
Description: Provide a short description of the policy's content. This description displays in
ZENworks Control Center.
4 Click Next to display the Roaming Profile Policy page, then use the options to specify the
settings. Refer to the following table for more information:
Field
Store User Profile
in User's Home
Directory
User Profile Path
Override Terminal
Server Profile
5 Click Next to display the Summary page.
6 Click Finish to create the policy now, or select Define Additional Properties to specify
additional information, such as policy assignment,
and which group the policy is a member of.
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Details
Select this option to load and save a user's profile from the user's home
directory as specified in eDirectory.
This option is applicable only if the user object is in eDirectory. However, it is
currently not supported in Domain Services for Windows environment.
Select a UNC path to a user's roaming profile. If you want to administer the
policy on more than one user object, use
variable. In this case, the environment variable is resolved with the logged-on
username and the user profile is loaded from the specified path.
If a user is accessing a terminal server that has its own profile, enable this
option to override the terminal server's profile.
, but you can create additional folders to
/policies
%USERNAME%
system requirements, enforcement, status,
as the environment