microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin

On Nov 15, 4:00 pm, "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
wrote:
> Ian Toltz wrote:
> > Hey everyone!
>
> > I need to increase the roaming profile size, however the group policy
> > editor restricts it to 30,000 KB tops. I've done some research and
> > found system.adm, and I tried changing the settings in there to see if
> > I could then increase the limits in the group policy editor, but I had
> > no luck. Whether I increased it to 60,000 KB or decreased it to 29,900
> > KB, when I went back to gpedit.msc it had a default and max value of
> > 30,000 KB.
>
> > I'd prefer not to edit the registry directly. Any ideas why gpedit.msc
> > wasn't following the settings in system.adm? I did restart after
> > editing it.
>
> > P.S. I've been testing this out on a Windows XP machine, but when I
> > get it working will need to implement it on our Windows 2003 server.
>
> > Thanks!
>
> Well, you could disable this policy entirely, I suppose - I've never had a
> need to use it myself.
>
> Re your specific question, I'm honestly not sure if you can increase that
> limit. Have you found a KB article that suggests otherwise?
>
> Note - if you use folder redirection for My Documents, Desktop, and
> Application Data, it's unlikely your profiles will be even *this* big. You
> really want to keep them tiny if you want them to work at all.

Thanks for the advice!

I haven't seen any KB articles saying it was possible, but I have seen
forum postings linking to deleted KB articles suggesting it was
possible. Actually, in my research, it seems like a lot of KB links
regarding adm files (including links from Microsoft's site itself)
have been deleted.

Also, the limit seems to be much higher under Windows Vista. I tried
it on a Vista machine and was able to set it to 999,999 KB (didn't try
any higher, just typed in a big number). Of course, it's entirely
likely that they changed the code that adjudicates that in Vista, so
that doesn't mean it would necessarily port over to XP.

The annoying thing is this: Most of our machines DO use Vista, but our
server is server 2003, and that's where the GP comes from.

Our main problem is some software. We're an educational institution,
and certain programs (the current complaint is in regards to NetBeans)
apparently like to dump lots of stuff in the profile which is taking
the students over the 30 megabyte limit for profile size. From what I
understand this is not a simple thing to change from within the
program itself.

I've no experience with folder redirection, but it sounds like a good
answer. All our users are given a network drive, so if there was some
way to subtly redirect whatever it is NetBeans is doing to that
network folder it seems all the problems would go away. Of course,
that's assuming there's not some new issue brought up with network
drives... (for example, .Net applications and Visual Studio don't work
well off of a network drive due to security restrictions)