Guest Zack Posted November 15, 2007 Posted November 15, 2007 Currently most users have a set roaming profile and home folder in Active Directory. We have been having a lot of problems with roaming profiles especially when used with Terminal Services. We're wanting to switch over to just using Folder Redirection for the MyDocuments folder since that is the the only thing that really needs to be available at multiple PC's and also available via Terminal Services. I have GPO set to a test OU that sets folder redirection. This works fine for users who have a local profile and their MyDocuments is stored locally. However for users who are already using Roaming user profiles it doesn't move their MyDocuments folder and I have to go in and manually select to change the folder location to the new share - Even if I've removed the path from the user's Profile tab. We're also wanting to move all of users MyDocuments to a different server so that is why Folder Redirection is set to a different share then where there home folder is currently set. Is there anyway around this or any way to force folder redirection even if the MyDocuments folder is currently mapped to a different share? Am I going about this the wrong way? Thanks
Guest Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] Posted November 15, 2007 Posted November 15, 2007 Re: Switching from Roaming Profiles to Folder Redirection Zack <Zack@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > Currently most users have a set roaming profile and home folder in > Active Directory. > We have been having a lot of problems with roaming profiles > especially when used with Terminal Services. You need to use a different path for your TS profiles than your roaming profiles. Never let them mix and match. You can keep roaming profiles & folder redirection and *still* use TS profiles - in fact, even if you get rid of the roaming profiles, you should still specify TS profiles paths for all your users who use TS. > > We're wanting to switch over to just using Folder Redirection for the > MyDocuments folder since that is the the only thing that really needs > to be available at multiple PC's and also available via Terminal > Services. Not desktop or application data, too? I would. You certainly don't want that stuff residing on a workstation's hard drive and not manageable/accessible to the user at another desktop (or their TS session....shouldn't they see the same stuff?) I'd do 'redirect everyone to the same location' and 'set subfolders under the root path' - so they end up with something like \\server\home$\%username%\My Documents \\server\home$\%username%\Desktop \\server\home$\%username%\Application Data > > I have GPO set to a test OU that sets folder redirection. This works > fine for users who have a local profile and their MyDocuments is > stored locally. However for users who are already using Roaming user > profiles it doesn't move their MyDocuments folder and I have to go in > and manually select to change the folder location to the new share - > Even if I've removed the path from the user's Profile tab. What settings did you choose for "policy removal" in the GPO? > > We're also wanting to move all of users MyDocuments to a different > server so that is why Folder Redirection is set to a different share > then where there home folder is currently set. That's fine. Of course, you could just as easily move the entire home directory share there, right? I personally don't like having too many folders for user data. I use three - \\server\profiles$\%username%, \\server\tsprofiles$\%username% and the user's home directory (even if that's an old fashioned word; I don't always set it up in ADUC as a home directory path). > > Is there anyway around this or any way to force folder redirection > even if the MyDocuments folder is currently mapped to a different > share? Am I going about this the wrong way? > > Thanks I'd suggest you read the above. Keep profiles tiny thru folder redirection, and they work well. Plus, you'll need it for TS. You'll also need a TS home directory. In my reply, I'm setting up a crosspost to microsoft.public.windows.gropup_policy.
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