LogOn and LogOFF speed will be severly affected by changes this weekend

March 15-17th we will be enabling Roaming Profiles and Document Redirection to facilitate the access by all our users to multiple servers. The first few times users logon/off with the policies in place the system will have to move large amounts of data from the current stores to the new locations. The result will be a delay in logging on and off. Please be patient and do not interrupt the process.

What is a user profile?
Your user profile stores your individual settings under Windows. It is used to re-create your preferred system environment when you log on. This includes everything from your wallpaper and desktop, to your My Documents folder, to your email settings and network connections.

Why use profiles?
User profiles allow multiple users to share a Windows system and still maintain their own preferences. You can set your background to chartreuse without affecting anyone else who uses the machine. Some of the things you can set that are stored in your profile include:

• Wallpaper Screen saver Display properties - colors, fonts and sizes Shortcuts on the desktop Whether to display or not to display web content A personalized Taskbar Desktop Toolbars Settings for some applications

What is a roaming profile?

A roaming profile is stored on a central server which can be accessed from all domain computers. This allows you to have the same environment settings on every machine to which you log on.