I have a problem that Appdata\Local and LocalLow are been synchronised roaming profile. I have done a lot of research and have not found a satisfactory answer.
In my company we have roaming profiles and folder redirection in place.
Until recently we had Desktop, documents, Appdata and some other folders all been redirected to a network share.
We now have only Desktop and documents redirected and also use Roaming profile. the problem is that I do need Appdata\Roaming in the roaming profile but Local and LocalLow seem to be going in the roaming profile also (on some PC's only) and for some users these folders are over 1.5GB and it causes huge delay at logon time.
I am aware that there is a GPO (group policy to exclude Appdata: User Configuration-->Administrative Templates-->System-->User Profiles-->Exclude directories in roaming profile.) and I am using this to block some folders, such as downloads, music etc.
Can someone please tell me why these folders are been synchronized with Roaming profile and how can I fix this?? I really need to have this fixed even if I have to do it on a per PC basis.
Even when we had Appdata been redirected instead of roaming, both Local and LocalLow were redirected as well and this was causing problems in some applications and network bandwidth.
Microsoft should implement a GPO that specifies what should be included on the roaming as there seem to be quite a lot of applications that store data on the root of user profile which then ends up on the roaming profile.
We have Server 2008 R2 domain and mainly windows 7 machines. we still have very few windows XP but they are almost been replaced with Windows 7.
Many thanks in Advance...