Where Are Windows Roaming Profiles Stored?
Roaming profiles follow users as versioned folders on the server, synced to each machine at logon.
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Roaming profiles copy the user profile to a server share at logoff and back at logon, so settings follow people between machines. Each Windows generation uses its own versioned folder suffix.
That versioning is the classic gotcha. A .V6 profile and a .V2 profile are separate worlds, and mismatched clients silently build parallel profiles. Slow logons usually mean a bloated profile syncing gigabytes; exclude caches and downloads from roaming to fix most of it.
Where Windows stores this, by platform
\\Server\Profiles\[User].V6 (versioned share)
Server-side profile copies, one versioned folder per Windows generation. Match the suffix to the client OS; exclude caches to fix slow logons.
Frequently asked questions
Settings follow some users but not others. Why?
Check the profile version suffix first: .V6, .V2, and unversioned folders belong to different Windows generations. Point the user at the right one or settings split across folders.
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