Has anyone figured a way to work off network when the Windows User accounts use roaming profiles (user documents and settings redirected to a network folder).
I've seen articles to the effect that roaming profiles are not supported but I'm hoping somone has come up with a workaround. I want to bring my workstation to an expo to show demos.
Have you tried to just simply use the Windows feature Offline Files? It syncs copies of the selected folders from the network to you local machine for when the network is not available.
That will work for the network files, like the Civil3D DWG files. If you installed in the default location, a lot of the support content went into your c:\users\... path, which will be ported around by the Windows roaming profiles. It think thats the reason why AutoDesk is nixing the roaming profile idea. For what its worth, I've been modifying our installs to be *outside* the OOTB install path so there isn't anything substantial under c:\Users\... .
Partly legacy issues from when our IT support was less robust than it is now, those folders have all sorts of user rights that needed to be dealt with (not so elsewhere). Another part is not having to deal with any paths that change because its a different user or operating system (changes from c:\Documents and Settings\... under XP and c:\users\... under Win 7). There's a few other minor benefits that are escaping me right now.