Saving documents to a server

[Guest Judy]

How do you program a computer/workstation to automatically save information

to a server instead of their individual hard drive?

[Guest Mike Lloyd-Jones]

Re: Saving documents to a server

 

We typically move My Documents for each user so that it points to a mapped

drive and folder on the server

Any MS apps which have My Docs as the save location then save to the server

by default

 

"Judy" <Judy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:AEEA9318-3BA7-4D5E-AEDA-E6C6A7BCED20@microsoft.com...

> How do you program a computer/workstation to automatically save

> information

> to a server instead of their individual hard drive?

[Guest Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Re: Saving documents to a server

 

Judy <Judy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> How do you program a computer/workstation to automatically save

> information to a server instead of their individual hard drive?

 

If you use AD, you set up GPOs for folder redirection (for My Documents at

the very least - perhaps also Application Data and Desktop). I like to

redirect all three to the same place - "create a folder under the parent

folder" so it becomes

 

 

\\server\users\<username>\My Documents

\\server\users\<username>\Desktop

\\server\users\<username>\Application Data

 

I set the policy to prevent users from changing the My Documents path. I

also use roaming profiles, but the folder redirection keeps them very small

and manageable.

 

If you don't use AD, you'll have to point My Documents manually at a UNC

path or mapped drive on the server....this isn't optimal.