Mandatory user profiles share

When using mandatory user profiles, how many users can safely use the same
mandatory profile concurrently?
So for example, there are 50 kiosk computers that auto logon as the user
man1 and use the same mandatory user profile \\server\profile\man1.

Considering that the same mandatory profile would be downloaded to users
computers at logon, you should take into account such factors as the profile
size, storage/network I/O on the server, network bandwidth between the
server and clients, as well as typical/maximum number of concurrent logons
in order to determine whether loading the same shared profile will actually
have any noticable impact on your users

hth
Marcin

"gira" <gira@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> When using mandatory user profiles, how many users can safely use the same
> mandatory profile concurrently?
> So for example, there are 50 kiosk computers that auto logon as the user
> man1 and use the same mandatory user profile \\server\profile\man1.
>
>
>

Shouldn't be a problem of how many users are using this since it is a
read-only set of files. The question would be how well can your central
store point manage the download of the profile. Personally 50 to me, sounds
like a perfectly acceptable amount of machines but I don't know your
environment. We easily had the many back in the old NT days w/o any issues.

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"gira" <gira@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> When using mandatory user profiles, how many users can safely use the same
> mandatory profile concurrently?
> So for example, there are 50 kiosk computers that auto logon as the user
> man1 and use the same mandatory user profile \\server\profile\man1.
>
>
>

Hi
I0m not aware of limitations for that one.

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I hope that the information above helps you.
Have a Nice day.

Jorge Silva
MCSE, MVP Directory Services

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"gira" <gira@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7779E057-4968-4539-A640-C478173B1539@microsoft.com...
> When using mandatory user profiles, how many users can safely use the same
> mandatory profile concurrently?
> So for example, there are 50 kiosk computers that auto logon as the user
> man1 and use the same mandatory user profile \\server\profile\man1.
>
>
>