The "management" of Libraries in Windows 7 is poor. Much like most of the new features.
I quite like the concept of Libraries. If you have multiple folders of Pictures for examples then you can add each of these folders and only ever have to just click on "Pictures" to see them all in one place. Management via group policy is very limited. You can't add or remove locations etc. The only one we will really use is Documents. As we are using Folder Redirection Win 7 will complain if you don't have offline files enabled on that as well (which is also a pain as you can't turn off the warning message about it when selecting that Library). Gadgets, pinning and libraries have next to useless management with group policy. Want to remove the public files from the Documents library with GP? Can't do that. Want to unpin or pin programs with GP? Can't do that. Want to automatically add gadgets with GP? Can't do that. From: Tom Miller [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, 28 July 2010 11:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 - Libraries Not to vear off topic - too late - but how are we as administrators supposed to manage "libraries"? I can see it now, user calls and says "I lost my documents, they were in my library last". That could be anywhere. I must be missing the big picture but I don't see how libraries are any improvement over standard drive letters or a sharepoint (or like) portal. And Libraries really do need to have some sort of GPO add-on so they can be enabled/disabled/redirected. Feel free to enlighten me. How are you folks managing libraries? Do you provide your users instructions? Tom Miller Engineer, Information Technology Hampton-Newport News Community Services Board 757-788-0528 >>> James Hill 07/27/10 8:47 PM >>> This tricked me up with regards to folder redirection. We created new GP's for Win 7 and when setting the folder redirection didn't tick the option to support XP, 2003 etc. This results in My Documents being called "Documents" and so when a previous XP user logged onto Win 7 there Documents was empty. Long story short we enabled the tickbox for XP and it is back to My Documents. You can actually see that in the group policy as it shows you the path it will create. Toggling the tickbox swaps between Documents and My Documents. From: Bob Hartung [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, 28 July 2010 12:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 7 - Libraries We're slowly adding more Windows 7 PCs to our mainly XP Pro stable of computers. This has been creating some issues for how we've been storing user files on our Windows 2003 server. Long ago we created a shared directory structure for storing user's files. \\main-ms1\users\<username<file:///\\main-ms1\users\%3cusername>> We'd then redefine their "My Documents" folder to point to this directory. Everything worked well. With the introduction of Windows 7, things are not working consistently. For instance, when I view the user directory structure above from the Windows 2003 server, I see multiple instances of "Documents" folders. These have replaced the <username> directories. They have different icons associated with them as opposed to the Win XP Pro users. It's some kind of alias you try to create a directory name for one of the Windows 7 users, it errors out saying the directory already exists. If you try to rename the Documents folder to the username, it doesn't produce an error but the folder name continues to be displayed as Documents. Now if I navigate to this directory structure from Windows 7 PC, the folders that display as "Documents" on the Windows 2003 server display as "My Documents". Is there a setting to fix or change the display of the directory name back to the actual folder name? Thanks. ---------------------- Bob Hartung Wisco Industries, Inc. 736 Janesville St. Oregon, WI 53575 Tel: (608) 835-3106 x215 Fax: (608) 835-7399 e-mail: bhartung(at)wiscoind.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
