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Using System Policy Editor to control user profiles

One of the biggest disadvantages about using roaming user profiles is that with time they can grow quite large. One way to help control the size of the profile is to control which folders are a part of that profile. To do so, follow these steps:

1. Open the System Policy Editor and double-click Default User.
2. Enable the Exclude Directories In Roaming Profiles check box under Windows NT User Profiles.
3. In the data box, type in the name of the directory or directories you wish to exclude. Make sure you use a semicolon between multiple directories.
4. Click OK and save the policy as Ntconfig.pol.
5. Save the file to the Netlogon share on all domain controllers. The Netlogon share is Winnt\System32\Repl\Import\Scripts.