Roaming Profiles and Redirected Folders, while often used together, provide different capabilities. Roaming profiles allow a user's operating environment (application settings, customizations, etc) to follow them to multiple machines. This is useful if your users truly do "roam" from machine to machine. If Roaming Profiles are implemented, it would be a good idea to go ahead and redirect certain folders. I would definitely redirect the my documents and application data directories so that the contents of those aren't loaded/unloaded each time the user logs in/out. If users like to save things to their desktop, it may be a good idea to redirect those as well.
Redirecting folders without using roaming profiles is a good way to ensure important documents are saved to a central location, allowing them to be backed up easily. In this case, you may only be concerned with redirecting the my documents folder. YMMV - Sean On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Chris Blair <[email protected]>wrote: > I have not used roaming profiles, but will to see if that is a better > fit. > > > > We have asked users to store documents on their user drive, but they are > users, and they do not listen… > > > > > > *From:* VIPCS [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Tuesday, December 28, 2010 2:34 PM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: Redirect folders to network > > > > Any particular reason you are not just creating roaming profiles for > users? Or instructing users to store their documents on a home directory on > a server? > > > > Sincerely, > > > > Jeffrey and Mary Jane Harris > > VIPCS > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* Chris Blair [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Tuesday, December 28, 2010 3:21 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Redirect folders to network > > > > XP workstations, 2003 R2 Native AD. > > > > We are testing redirecting the My Documents folder to the network. The main > objective is to capture important data on the workstations for backup. I did > some checks on workstations and found a good number of people are storing > documents, in folders, on their desktop. I know this can be redirected as > well. > > > > Any pros/cons to redirecting the desktop and making it available offline? > > > > Any other solutions I should look at instead of directing folders in > general? > > > > Thanks! > > > > ~ 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 > > ~ 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 > > ~ 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 > ~ 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
