Roaming Profiles Problems

Roaming profiles, or roaming user profiles, are commonly used by IT administrators to help users maintain their personalization and settings across multiple devices on a shared network. The main advantage of roaming profiles is that users can have a similar experience and access to the same documents when logging into multiple devices on a network.

Traditionally, roaming profile problems came about when the logon time was longer than that of a local profile, but new features available in Windows Server 2008 have allowed for the roaming profile’s size to be reduced, decreasing logon times. Another common roaming profile problem is the incompatibility of the user profile from Windows Vista to Windows 7. IT environments with both operating systems require two separate server-side profiles to be created for each user, and this is not ideal.

User virtualization, user environment management and workspace management can help overcome the roaming profile issues that occur in today’s hybrid desktop environments where users are often logging in from different devices, running on different operating systems and using a variety of delivery platforms. 

These technologies allow a user’s settings and personalization to become portable and centrally manageable by IT. This can all be accomplished without the need for complex scripts. RES Workspace Manager creates context-aware and adaptive workspaces for users managed in a single console.

Workspace Manager is ideal for hybrid environments that consist of multiple delivery technologies and devices. It allows IT to have unified management across all the platforms within an organization.