Profile Management

Scenario 5 - Load-balancing user stores

March 5, 2025

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“I want to load-balance my users across several geographically adjacent networked user stores (NUSs).”

Background reading

For an overview of the Microsoft DFS Namespaces technology, see DFS Namespaces overview.

Unlike Scenario 1, this scenario has a single site that is large enough to require multiple NUSs. Using DFS namespaces, we can improve on the solution in Scenario 1.

Scenario 1 (Option 1) used DFS Namespaces to map multiple sites to different folders on the same server. You can use a similar technique to map subfolders of a namespace to folders on different servers.

Ideally, you need an AD attribute that partitions user accounts into similarly sized chunks, such as #department#. As in Scenario 1, #department# must always be defined and must be guaranteed to contain a correct folder name.

As in Scenario 1, we set up a namespace for the NUS called \\MyCorp\Profiles.

This diagram shows how to set up the namespace.

Once you complete the setup, you configure the Path to user store setting as:

\\MyCorp\Profiles\#l#\#department#

With this configuration, the users in Wagga Wagga are distributed across two NUS servers, both local.

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Scenario 5 - Load-balancing user stores

March 5, 2025

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March 5, 2025

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Scenario 5 - Load-balancing user stores

Background reading

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