I'm building out a new RDS Server 2016 environment to replace our aging RDS 2008 environment. One emphasis we're trying to place on the new system is faster logins. After doing some testing on both our prod 2008 and dev 2016 RDS environments,
it's clear that a lot of the login time is attributed to new profile creation. It easily doubles our login time from about 40 seconds to over a minute. We do use folder redirection for favorites and documents. We currently do a weekly purge
of the profiles on our 2008 environment just to keep things clean but this comes at the expense of longer login times due to new profile creation.
Two options I've been considering are:
1.) Continue using local profiles but have some sort of script that would clean them up periodically, but do not delete them entirely. The disadvantage is that while we have a relatively small number of hosts (12), it will take some time for every user
to have a profile generated on each server. Also there is chance of profile corruption if we don't eventually purge the profiles. The benefit is that there should not be any issues with app compatibility.
2.) Implement local mandatory profiles but this may cause issues with certain applications such as Skype for Business that requires a certificate store. I did see an article mention that the state key can be changed in the SID so that the Skype app thinks
its a local profile. We also have a few other old oddball apps that I would be concerned will not play nice with mandatory profiles. The benefit with mandatory profiles is smaller profile size and less chance of corruption.
Since we have folder redirection to cover favorites and documents, and we're also going to redirect the Outlook OST, we really just need a way that will get the user logged in quickly that will support the apps. Any insights would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Josh