Thanks James that is really good to know it's still an issue for most people since we haven't had time to test it again any time recently, and it really requires a good sampling to see the problems. The user profile disks sound interesting, might take a look at that.
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 8:55 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Folder Redirect I wouldn't redirect APPDATA personally. Some applications really struggle with the network reads and writes, particularly if there are lots and lots of small files. Some out there say you can get away with it if your file services are architected right - there was an interesting discussion about it here https://helgeklein.com/blog/2014/10/folder-redirection-impacts-ux-breaks-applications/ What I've had great success with in the modern world is redirecting the entire user profile to a VHD on a remote file share. You can do this on Windows 10 with some trickery using User Profile Disks (see here https://4sysops.com/archives/user-profile-disks-on-windows-10/) or alternatively, for a better experience, I prefer using FSLogix Profile Containers which you can even use on older operating systems and/or from an Azure file share (some videos on this in the links below). Abstracting away the entire profile leaves you with much less overhead of management, but of course you don't get the flexibility you might from a high-end profile management solution like RES, Ivanti DesktopNow, LiquidWare Labs ProfileUnity, Citrix WEM, VMware Immidio, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3aHnEfMCtA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s_o1O8dBQQ Of course, back to the original case about Folder Redirection, I generally find folders with lots of reads and writes (APPDATA, Cookies, History, Recent Items) have a detrimental effect on performance, particularly in VDI environments. YMMV From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Miller Bonnie L. Sent: 20 April 2017 16:46 To: New NT System Admin List (NTSysADM@lists.myITforum.com<mailto:NTSysADM@lists.myITforum.com>) <ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com>> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Folder Redirect And just a couple of other thoughts from issues we've seen over the years and found during testing: 1) Don't try to redirect different users' folders to the same location 2) Folder redirection REQUIRES the users have full control in the location, it doesn't work with modify 3) File and folder ownership can be an issue, there are also some GPO options that can help with that. We redirect everything except for appdata and also use DFS. No 2016 yet besides testing, but we have Windows 7, 8.1, and 10 clients. I'm not sure how many people do redirect appdata now, but way back in the day during testing we found it put quite a lot of additional burden on the servers and slowed down local application access, so we chose not to do it. If anyone has any modern experience with redirecting appdata I'd love to hear your experiences. -Bonnie From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 6:51 AM To: New NT System Admin List (NTSysADM@lists.myITforum.com<mailto:NTSysADM@lists.myITforum.com>) <NTSysADM@lists.myITforum.com<mailto:NTSysADM@lists.myITforum.com>>; ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Folder Redirect What do the event logs say when the GPO folder redirection fails? The gpo for "prevent user from changing My Documents path" can interfere with folder redirection, but that would generally be a different behaviour to what you're seeing. Sent from my slightly schizophrenic, but rather cool, BlackBerry Android From: christoph...@slalom.com<mailto:christoph...@slalom.com> Sent: 20 April 2017 2:45 p.m. To: NTSysADM@lists.myITforum.com<mailto:NTSysADM@lists.myITforum.com> Reply to: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [NTSysADM] Folder Redirect We are in the process of deploying folder redirects and we can't seem to get it working for all users. The issue is that it works fine for the first user that logs onto the system but no other user will work on that same device. Some background on the environment. We are running two DC with server 2016 running active directory at 2016 functional leave. Our clients are all Windows 10. The file share is also server 2016 DFS.
