I am really trying to get away from folder redirection if I can get away with it. All student home folders across the district are stored on our SAN at the high school. We only have DSL between our buildings so anything I can do to make the login process quicker I'm all for. I made the announcement this morning and so far no complaints.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Zobel Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 11:42 AM To: 'Tech-Geeks Mailing List' Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] Windows 7 Folder Redirection and GPO Since I don't run AD I can't help you there, but on the Novell side with Zenworks GPO's I have added an adm to my GPO for folder redirection which worked great with XP and does fine with Win 7 too. Occasionally I get an error stating that the H: can't be found, but right after I click on the OK button everything pops right up. I know that the registry settings for Win 7 is in a different spot than XP, but contains the same language and it works. I can send the file if you want to try. Daniel Zobel Director of Technology Heyworth CUSD#4 Direct Phone 309-473-2250 Grade School 309-473-2822 High School 309-473-2322 Unit Office 309-473-3727 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rick Lawsha Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 10:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [tech-geeks] Windows 7 Folder Redirection and GPO We had a problem of slow logins and home folders being renamed. Any student who was running Windows 7 was subject to a group policy that redirected the My Documents folder to their home folder which was on a centrally located SAN. The student home folder was also mapped to drive letter J. This worked okay until recently. When we started rolling out Windows 7 labs we noticed that student home folders which were named with the student ID were being renamed to My Documents. Teachers were having a hard time finding student work because all folders were named the same! Searching the web led us to various hacks and work arounds but the solution for us was to stop redirecting the My Documents folder. Students now are instructed to save files to the J drive which is available to them on any computer they use to login. It appears this problem (or feature) was around since Vista days but we skipped that OS for the most part so we didn't notice this bug. Fixes involved making desktop.ini read only, remapping the redirected folder to a subfolder, and registry hacks, none of which appealed to us. ________________________________ This electronic mail is copyrighted by Community Unit School District #205, Galesburg, Illinois USA. Unauthorized dissemination or duplication of it is prohibited. Violators of copyright/confidentiality laws may be prosecuted.
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