Not in my environment, unfortunately. I was pretty much forced to get real good at removing this stuff.
Of course, it’s nice if you already have a recent backup of the drive and data in case something goes wrong.
We don't synch the user's data to the servers. The users are supposed to see to that themselves. Some of the conscientious ones do- but even they usually don't know things like where their PST files are located. A lot of our people are now working remotely, which compounds the problem.
We'd need a hell of a server farm to accomodate all of our user's data- it ain't a small company. I had a end-of-lease laptop swapout last week for a user who was pretty typical: programmer with about 20 GB on the machine that had to be moved. Most I've seen is about 80 GB on a single laptop.
If you allow users to accumulate personal music and images in their documents folder, then roaming profiles don’t work well.
I simply tell people they have to keep personal stuff out of My Documents. No one accumulates gigabytes of Word Documents. Not in my experience.
huh?
You know, that's what FILEservers are for! No data; zero, zip, nada, should be stored on a users system. OS only.