CommNet Problem at TechEd

There's one huge CommNet area at TechEd, and lots of little satellite areas.  Apparently since roaming profiles are enabled the machines tend to run out of disk space a lot.  That's probably quickly fixed at the main area, but not at the other areas.  This sounds bad, and it is for most people, but the upside is that you can always go back to any particular computer that you have previously used and be one of the only ones able to use it now.  Its kind of like reserving my own computer for the rest of the week!  Sorry, it wasn't my idea, but I'm willing to exploit this to its fullest.  :)

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  • But roaming profiles *don't* seem to be enabled. I have to create a VPN connection every time I go to use a machine.

  • Romaing Profiles are stored on a central server ... that would be where the disk space is an issue - oen can disable the caching of roaming profiles on a local machine with a quick GPO change.


  • Hi I am working support support for CommNet and we did see this problem. As pointed out by others this was not a Romaing Profiles issue we are pusshing out all type of applications wallpaper etc. we now a running scripts that keep deletting the files off the boxes. Sorry for the short entry and bad spelling I am using one of the Hitachi Sprint phones to enter this.

  • I heard they said they wer going to take down the Wierless network becuse they were gettign hacked/flooded and it was causing isues for desktops. is this true? Next year a provide that's worth anything like CISCO should host the Wierless network and set it up that you have to be enables so if you hack they knwo who you are right away.

  • I don't know any details (honestly) so that may or may not be the case. I do know that things were good Monday, bad Tuesday, and terrible Wednesday. Things got so slow, when you could even get a website to be found at all, that my SprintPCS Handspring Treo was way better. Today things seem to be much better again, although logging in still seems far too slow to me.

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