Folder Redirection?

[bofhrevenge2]

We are currenty using folder redirection for our users My Documents folders, i would also like to redirect the users App Data folder to their network share as some are quite big and take a while to copy.

Does anyone use this feature along with roaming profiles and if so can you point out any pitflls you may of come accross?

Cheers.

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[aftertaf]

i noticed that some things remain in Local Settings folder, and this one you cant redirect....

otherwise, would have been able to do away with roaming profiles, which i find a nightmare!

Aftertaf

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[mstarrett]

My advice is to turn off the roaming profiles... Use scripts in each OU to do the mapping and redirection of My Documents folder. OR move the group of needy roaming profile people to a thin client like terminal server or Citrix. Roaming profiles are OK for less than ten person networks but after that it becomes the headache from hell.

Mike

 

[bofhrevenge2]

Well we have 1500 roaming users as we are a high school, we try not to keep local profiles on the HD as they take up so much space. The My Work folder is already redirected to the server, but the App Data folder is causing a problem and i would like to redirect that to their network profile folder so it isn't all copied over at logon.
The local settings folder doesn’t roam with the profiles so that isn’t a problem.

Some of the software that we run doesn’t like terminal services and Citrix is too expensive. We also tried mandatory profiles for a while but every time some new software is introduced it needs altering.

Any other ideas?

Thanks.


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