If you want to automatically make a user's profile available when that user logs on to any computer on the network, you can configure roaming profiles through the Active Directory Users and Computers MMC snap-in. If you are configuring roaming profiles on Windows Server 2012, you can use the Active Directory Administration Center.
- On the Windows server, open the Active Directory Users and Computers MMC (or the Active Directory Administration Center on Windows 2012 and later servers).
- Locate the user for which you want to configure a roaming profile.
- Right-click the user and click Properties.
- On the Profile tab, enter the profile path to the share where you want to store the user's roaming profile, followed by %username%.
For example, a profile path might be the following:
\\vs1.example.com\profiles\%username%. The first time a user logs in,
%username% is replaced with the user's name.
In the path \\vs1.example.com\profiles\%username%, profiles is the share name of a share on storage virtual machine (SVM) vs1 that has Full Control rights for Everyone.
- Click OK.