Roaming profiles on network

Report · Feb 27, 2007

Hi all!

Ok, so first the problem (it is on our school network, and im currently helping the admins with something:
There are 1500+ users on the school network, and 800 of them are required to create an "E-portfolio" in dreamweaver, for our IT course.
When a user configures dreamweaver it creates a configuration file in the users profile "c:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Macromedia\Dreamweaver MX\Configuration" however, with everyone having a roaming profile (and static profiles would be out of the question) when users log on, it has to drag a 20meg file from the server to the root directory of the computer the user has logged on to. Now although 20meg isn't very big, when 150 users are all login on at the same time, it can take ages to log on.
Now our original idea was to just get rid of this configuration file, and see what it affected - however it gets rid of all defined sites, and also how you configure your window in dreamweaver - so this is out of the question.

So my question is - "Is there anyway the we can reduce the file size, or have a "shared" configuration file, so that it just saves the defined sites on the user profiles?"

Report · Feb 27, 2007

If the E-portfolios are allowed to have the same structure I think your time
would be better spent designing this system with a Database backend and
admin tool.

This way a person can login to the admin tool and fill in whatever
information they want and then click update. You could make this as simple
or "cool" as you want. The benefit to this is that you can almost guarantee
that it will always work and that a person will not upload something that
breaks.

Just a thought.

"shaddowarrior2006" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all!
>
> Ok, so first the problem (it is on our school network, and im currently
> helping the admins with something:
> There are 1500+ users on the school network, and 800 of them are required
> to
> create an "E-portfolio" in dreamweaver, for our IT course.
> When a user configures dreamweaver it creates a configuration file in the
> users profile "c:\Documents and Settings\username\Application
> Data\Macromedia\Dreamweaver MX\Configuration" however, with everyone
> having a
> roaming profile (and static profiles would be out of the question) when
> users
> log on, it has to drag a 20meg file from the server to the root directory
> of
> the computer the user has logged on to. Now although 20meg isn't very
> big,
> when 150 users are all login on at the same time, it can take ages to log
> on.
> Now our original idea was to just get rid of this configuration file, and
> see
> what it affected - however it gets rid of all defined sites, and also how
> you
> configure your window in dreamweaver - so this is out of the question.
>
> So my question is - "Is there anyway the we can reduce the file size, or
> have
> a "shared" configuration file, so that it just saves the defined sites on
> the
> user profiles?"
>
>