Guest lab-guy Posted December 21, 2007 Posted December 21, 2007 My "people" here don't want to be part of a domain; they insist on logging on to their local machines and mapping drives across to the server. Any suggestions to automatically backup their local My Documents Folder to a directory on the server ? Thanks Mike
Guest Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] Posted December 21, 2007 Posted December 21, 2007 Re: Synchronize My Documents lab-guy <labguy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > My "people" here don't want to be part of a domain; they insist on > logging on to their local machines and mapping drives across to the > server. > > Any suggestions to automatically backup their local My Documents > Folder to a directory on the server ? > > Thanks > > Mike Um....why are your end users dictating this decision in the first place? Aren't your "people" informed of the company's IT standards and expected to abide by them? Why do they even *have* local accounts? I'll bet they're full admins on their workstations, too - sounds like you've got your work cut out for you, sadly. The performance and reliability of running backups across the network will stink; I don't recommend this. You can't easily use offline files if they aren't logging into the domain, I believe (and I don't think offline files have a place on LAN connected computers anyway; I've had far too many problems with this feature to even want this on laptops). You could set up a script on each user's workstation to run nightly, but really, in a business, this is a matter of the cart leading the horse, and it's nuts. I'd take this up with management. Ultimately, this is not a technical issue, it's a behavioral one. If they log into the domain you can use group policy folder redirection for My Documents (and Desktop & Application Data).
Guest lab-guy Posted December 25, 2007 Posted December 25, 2007 Re: Synchronize My Documents Agreed. My people, for the record, would be the asst prof who is "in charge" of I/T, who thinks that a domain "complicates" things. Thanks for the response Mike "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote: > lab-guy <labguy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > > My "people" here don't want to be part of a domain; they insist on > > logging on to their local machines and mapping drives across to the > > server. > > > > Any suggestions to automatically backup their local My Documents > > Folder to a directory on the server ? > > > > Thanks > > > > Mike > > Um....why are your end users dictating this decision in the first place? > Aren't your "people" informed of the company's IT standards and > expected to abide by them? Why do they even *have* local accounts? I'll bet > they're full admins on their workstations, too - sounds like you've got your > work cut out for you, sadly. > > The performance and reliability of running backups across the network will > stink; I don't recommend this. You can't easily use offline files if they > aren't logging into the domain, I believe (and I don't think offline files > have a place on LAN connected computers anyway; I've had far too many > problems with this feature to even want this on laptops). > You could set up a script on each user's workstation to run nightly, but > really, in a business, this is a matter of the cart leading the horse, and > it's nuts. I'd take this up with management. > > Ultimately, this is not a technical issue, it's a behavioral one. If they > log into the domain you can use group policy folder redirection for My > Documents (and Desktop & Application Data). > > > > > > >
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