At present we have a Windows 2008 R2 RDS Farm consisting of 10 servers which serves around 300 users. User profiles and folders are redirected to a Windows 2012 file server. While this works well we found some of the older 2008 RDS servers are beginning to run low on disk space due to the caching of all 300 user profiles. Every now and then we have to manually clear these down.
We have just purchased some new servers and intend to setup a new Windows 2012 RDS farm as well as two Windows 2012 file servers. We intend to use DFS on both file servers to give us some redundancy.
Questions:
- I seem to recall redirected folders and/or roaming profiles isn't recommend when using DFS. Is this still the case when using Windows 2012?
- Is it best practice to have each Windows 2012 RDS server to cache a copy of the user profiles? Could we configure the 2012 RDS servers to access the user profiles directly from the DFS share/file server without caching a local copy or would we suffer from performance issues?
- Any other best practice suggestions or considerations when setting up a Windows 2012 RDS farm with roaming profiles and redirected user folders?
Thank you in advance for any help or assistance offered.