It is possible to implement this policy on computer accounts as well. You set User GPO settings on a GPO that is on a Computers OU, then when a user logs into that PC it will apply the User GPO settings. We do this with Folder redirection, but we redirect to the users home drive (which is set in the user profile). That helps us since then it doesn't matter what computer they log into.
Phil -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bernard, Aric Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 7:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Sites and Folder Redirection Noah, The policy that you want to implement (folder redirection) is a user based policy, so implementing it against the file servers (or an OU that contains one or more of the file servers to be more accurate) will not have the affect you want. If you want a policy to be implemented based on where the user is (currently), ensure that your site topology is up-to-date, and implement you GPOs based on sites. For users that roam from one site to another, this becomes a little more complex. If they move from Site A to Site B, the policies (if implemented against sites) will redirect them to a different server. This new location would of course not contain any data - which may (I suspect) or may not be a bad thing. This potential problem can be over come by replicating the home directory data between locations. Of course this process is not without its own issues: 1. Is there any organization issue (i.e. security, policy, etc.) with having this data replicated? 2. How will the data be replicated? (i.e. underlying storage infrastructure, third party data replication product, home grown process, etc.) 3. How much data is there? Have quotas been implemented? 4. Is there capacity for all data at each location? 5. Often should data be replicated between sites? How often do users roam between locations? 6. Is there enough available bandwidth to support replication at the scheduled times? 7. How will conflicts be resolved during the replication process? You could throw something like DFS on top of this to provide a common namespace and reduce the number of policies implemented. If you want your notebook users to be able to access their redirected folders when they have no access to the file server then offline files will be required. Some food for thought I suppose.... Aric ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Noah Eiger Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 3:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ActiveDir] Sites and Folder Redirection Hello: Say I have three sites: Site1, Site2, Site3 (all properly defined in Sites & Services). Each site has a file server with a home directory share: \\server1\home$ <file:///\\server1\home$> , \\server2\home$ <file:///\\server2\home$> , and \\server3\home$ , respectively. I want to redirect My Documents to these home directories using a GPO that creates the subfolders and assigns tight permissions (as per MSKB 274443). Where is the best place to create these GPOs (a separate one for each server)? Obviously, it needs to apply to the users only at that site. So, I could place it at the Site level. However, then when a user from Site 1 logs in at Site 2 will they get a new home directory created on server2? I could create separate OUs that parallel the site structure and place users in those OUs and then apply the GPO there. However, that becomes a bit of an administrative hassle when users move around. Finally, how do either of these configurations affect laptop users that move from site to site? Slight aside: XP automatically sets these redirected folders to be available offline. Do people generally leave this enabled? Thanks. -- nme List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
