On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 1:05 PM, James Rankin <[email protected]> wrote: > Firstly I'd sack Offline Files and go for a proper EFSS solution like > OneDrive for Business, DataNow, Hightail, etc. etc. - there's loads in this > space. Offline Files are a major pain for clearing caches and whatnot - with > proper EFSS you just delete the local profile and you're done. > > How do you assign the file server - using a logon script of some sort?
No, we just set the user's home folder in ADU&C. Group membership determines which GPO gets implemented, and the GPOs are set to redirect to the same server. > I've seen this done with AppSense loads of times and what they tend to do is > set a variable at user logon that depends on your location, device, etc. And when you logon to a disconnected device, say your laptop at home? > Then you just reference the variable "%HOMESERVER%" or whatever you want to > call it elsewhere in the configuration for redirection, GPO and whatever else > you need. If files need to be moved from one server to another, initiate a > File/Folder Copy Action if the variable has changed from last time. Needs > some work to evaluate and store the variable, but I've done this previously > where users needed to remember the last default printer they had for a > particular subnet (a nightmare that was, indeed!) The problem is that it doesn't do all we want - no universal filepath for redirected user folders, etc. But it could help somewhat with the offline files aspect. And I don't want to move files during a logon if a variable has changed from last time, certainly not with multiple gig of files in some users folders. > There's other solutions in this space besides AppSense - RES, Immidio, > Scense, to name a few - but they all offer more or less the same set of > parameters. I know for certain you can do this with AppSense though. That's not what the AppSense folks told us yesterday in a webinar. It could do some, but not all, of what we want to happen.
