Move User Profiles

Question

Hi All

I have a terminal server and it has 200GB disk space on primary partition. i have another drive D drive which has 1.5TB space. i want to move all the user profiles to the D Drive will it cause any issue by moving the user profiles to D drive, when a new user logs his profile should be created in D drive. Please guide me how to move the users profile in windows server 2016 and will it cause any issue to any application the user is accessing now.

Answer 1

Hello @Roger Roger

All you have to do is make sure everyone is logged off, reboot the server once to ensure no files are locked, move all profiles to the other hard drive with permissions intact (robocopy), go into HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList and change the drive path on everyones folder.

Best Regards
Karlie

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Answer 2

You can follow along here.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/ask-the-performance-team/migrating-user-profile-disks-in-remote-desktop-services/ba-p/375630

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