GPO should be good for your redirection, but to not include certain file types will need another method. For blocking PSTs, you need to probably combine having your users save them locally to a non-"my documents" location, and then implement FSRM (File Server Resource Manger), which is part of the Windows File server role, to add a file screen that blocks *.pst files from your redirected location on the server. You may also want to use FSRM to maintain a quota limit of some kind or block other unwanted file types.
Temp files are a tough one, as many apps want to put their temps into the folder the file is being opened and worked on from (such as MS Office)--that may be better served with a cleanup script that runs from time to time on the servers, and then filter it out in your DFS replication (which should be the default). ________________________________ From: Tom Miller [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 6:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Folder redirection questions We have a project to enable folder redirection here. The goal is to redirect anything saved on the local \My Documents to the user's home folder. I'd exclude the normal temp files and junk as well as PST files, since users tend to have huge PST files saved locally. (We archive mail via an appliance so if a PST were not accessible we could use that.) Most desktops are Windows 7. Servers are Windows 2008 R2. I will probably create a DFS share to replicate the shares between our sites. We have a number of users who travel to and from our various sites. We also have a number of sales staff who connect via VPN but are rarely at one of our offices. Any suggestions for this sort of scenario? Any third party products to recommend or is GPO satisfactory? We may use a remote backup method for our sales folks (something like CrashPlan) instead of folder redirection for them. Thanks, Tom ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
