Roaming Profiles/Folder Redirection Problem

[Guest lrichardson@auffenberg.com]

I am trying to setup roaming profiles for my users and using folder

redirection to help reduce long logon times. However, I have some

people with gigabytes of music and videos that I don't want roaming

with them. I want to be able to have their My Documents and Desktop

folders roam, but not My Music and My Videos. Can I exclude those

subfolders or do I have to exclude the Entire My Documents folder? I

am using Windows 2003 Server. I found that there is an option to

exclude folders from roaming profiles, however when i put "My Music"

or "My Documents\My Music" they still get synchronized like everything

else.

[Guest Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Re: Roaming Profiles/Folder Redirection Problem

 

lrichardson@auffenberg.com wrote:

> I am trying to setup roaming profiles for my users and using folder

> redirection to help reduce long logon times. However, I have some

> people with gigabytes of music and videos that I don't want roaming

> with them. I want to be able to have their My Documents and Desktop

> folders roam, but not My Music and My Videos. Can I exclude those

> subfolders or do I have to exclude the Entire My Documents folder? I

> am using Windows 2003 Server. I found that there is an option to

> exclude folders from roaming profiles, however when i put "My Music"

> or "My Documents\My Music" they still get synchronized like everything

> else.

 

Hmmm. The word synchronization implies offline files - this isn't mandatory

or necessary just becaue you're using folder redirection. I don't - I

disable it via group policy.

 

If you don't mean that, provide a little more info - rsop.msc info & event

log errors, for starters.

[Guest Anteaus]

RE: Roaming Profiles/Folder Redirection Problem

 

 

If it's any help. the 'special folders' are determined by the User Shell

Folders key under HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer.

These values (which are relative to the profile root) populate the Shell

Folders key when the user logs-on.

 

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/usershellfolders.htm

 

Unfortunately the entry for My Music doesn't seem to have an entirely

dependable result. Some progams seem to be hardcoded to use the default.

 

I've often wished there was an option to turn all of these media folders

off, as their presence lends legitimacy to users downloading pirate stuff, or

just generally clogging the system with trash. Hard to convince a guy he

shouldn't have music on a company computer when there's a folder of that name

under his nose.

 

"lrichardson@auffenberg.com" wrote:

> I am trying to setup roaming profiles for my users and using folder

> redirection to help reduce long logon times. However, I have some

> people with gigabytes of music and videos that I don't want roaming

> with them. I want to be able to have their My Documents and Desktop

> folders roam, but not My Music and My Videos. Can I exclude those

> subfolders or do I have to exclude the Entire My Documents folder? I

> am using Windows 2003 Server. I found that there is an option to

> exclude folders from roaming profiles, however when i put "My Music"

> or "My Documents\My Music" they still get synchronized like everything

> else.

>