I don't know if I'd call it "better". More like "different". The big missing feature is a "go online, dammit" button. I have two drives mapped to different shares on the same server, one of them my redirected My Documents, the other a share where some things are available offline and some things not. Way too often, the My Documents drive is online but the other share is not, when I want to get at a file that's not available offline. The fix is to try to access something on the share - I'll try both things that are online and things that are available offline - not sure if it makes a difference, but within a minute after the attempted access, the drive goes online.
Carl From: Chris Blair [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 8:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Redirect folders to network What about laptop users? I have read that offline syncing can be a huge pain. But we want to capture that data, and also make it available while out of the office. Is offline syncing better in Win7? From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 3:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Redirect folders to network This is one reason why we don't do offline files. With folder redirection, their "My Docs" will follow them without leaving anything on the client. From: Chris Blair [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 4:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Redirect folders to network Since our users do not "roam", we will probably stick with folder redirection. Another question, once the folders are redirected, I want to enable offline access. When offline access is enabled, and let's say a person does sign into another computer, there information would be synced onto that computer. Is there a way to stop this? I don't want an IT person's documents being synced to every computer they sign into. Thanks! From: Sean Martin [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 3:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Redirect folders to network 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? 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