We are trying to get this to work, and it is copying the address book, bookmarks, when I log into a new computer, but it seems that I have to have the Notes ID for all the pc’s that this person is going to reside. Correct me if I am wrong, but shouldn’t I be able to grab any pc (with roaming profiles installed) and log in? Otherwise, it doesn’t seem roaming, without admin help. What am I missing. I am a developer and have been asked to look into this and don’t see anything about the ID files.
Subject: Roaming Profiles
Greg,
You can choose for each user whether you want to attach the user’s ID to their roaming address book, or not.
This choice is made at the point that you upgrade the user to roaming (using the Admin client). The Assign Roaming Profiles dialog box has a check box labeled “Store User ID file in personal address book”.
If you choose this option for a user, Notes will pull down their ID every time they use a new multi-user client machine.
You should be aware that there are some potential security issues with this approach (mostly if the local storage isn’t secure, such as on Windows 98 machines).
There are also some issues around how password changes are handled for users whose IDs are stored in their personal address books.
This technote gives good information on the whole process:
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27003882
Rupert Clayton
UK
Subject: RE: Roaming Profiles
But if they haven’t logged into that machine yet, how does it know to look in the address book? And what about the users that are assigned to that pc permanently? They are not roaming, but should they be treated as one, since this machine will be shared?
I will check out the technote, thank you.
Subject: RE: Roaming Profiles
It checks to see if they have a user profile folder created it creates one, and at that time pulls down the ID file. If the user is on the PC permanently it still does the synchronization and cleanup every time they log on or off.