We ended up junking the whole folder redirection thing. If you do use folder redirection for My Documents for instance, make sure that the folder is redirected to a sub folder of the users home folder and not the root. If you redirect the My Documents folder to the root of the users home folder and you use Windows 7 then you may experience the situation where all folders are named the same. Instead of having folders with names such as jsmith, rburns, jdoe you may see all folders names the same such as My Documents, My Documents, My Documents. There are some work arounds but none of them are pretty. We ended up just mapping drive letter J for everyone to a centralized SAN and trained the users to save to J instead of My Documents, this is working great for us.
From: tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org [mailto:tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org] On Behalf Of Bryan Boston Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 9:19 AM To: tech-geeks@tech-geeks.org Subject: [tech-geeks] Folder Redirection Rollout Hey Guys, We're planning a phased rollout of a folder redirection GPO for staff and I was wandering how you guys have gone about the process of getting files off of local machines to the share on the server. My main concern is for those who have very large document folders. The built-in copy action of the GPO is nice, but when you have a large amount of files it will not bring you to the desktop until the copy process has completed. I am considering either creating a script to pull everything off of the machines, which might be time consuming, or doing the transfer by hand as we go to each machine. I just don't want everyone who will be under this GPO to have to sit in front of their machine for 20 minutes on the day it takes effect, unable to work on anything. Any ideas? Thanks, Bryan. ________________________________ 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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