Folder Redirection lets administrators redirect the path of a folder to a new location. The location can be a folder on the local computer or a directory on a network file share. Users can work with documents on a server as if the documents were based on a local drive.
The documents in the folder are available to the user from any computer on the network. Offline File technology which is turned on by default gives users access to the folder even when they are not connected to the network. This is especially useful for people who use portable computers. Data that is stored in a network folder can be backed up as part of routine system administration.
This is safer because it requires no action by the user. If you use Roaming User Profiles, you can use Folder Redirection to reduce the total size of your Roaming Profile and make the user logon and logoff process more efficient for the end-user. When you deploy Folder Redirection with Roaming User Profiles, the data synchronized with Folder Redirection is not part of the roaming profile and is synchronized in the background by using Offline Files after the user has logged on.
Therefore, the user does not have to wait for this data to be synchronized when they log on or log off as is the case with Roaming User Profiles. Data that is specific to a user can be redirected to a different hard disk on the user's local computer from the hard disk that holds the operating system files.
This makes the user's data safer in case the operating system has to be reinstalled. As an administrator, you can use Group Policy to set disk quotas, limiting how much space is taken up by user profile folders. The Target tab of the folder's Properties box enables you to select the location of the redirected folder on a network or in the local user profile.
You can choose between the following settings:. Sign in to vote. Wednesday, October 20, PM. I have a few questions: The whole Libraries, indexing has me confused, since this was so simple to do for my WinXP machines. What must I do to to the File server to allow folder redirect? Thursday, January 6, PM. Jacob H. Tuesday, April 17, PM. The policies, how have you created them?
Were they created on XP or 7? Wednesday, April 18, PM. By default, the My Documents folder is a folder in the user's profile that is used as a default storage location for saved documents. If you are an administrator, you can use folder redirection in a group policy to modify the location of My Documents to reside on a network share.
When users save documents to the My Documents folder, the files are actually saved on an assigned network location and can be backed up by the administrator. The path to the My Documents folder is stored in the following registry key, where complete path to storage location is the path to your storage location:. When the properties of the My Documents folder the desktop icon are displayed and a group policy has not been established to redirect the folder, you can change the path to the My Documents folder and you can move the contents from the old location to the new location:.
In the Target box, type the new path to the My Documents folder, or click Move to browse to the folder and if needed, create a new My Documents folder. If the path you type does not exist, you are prompted to confirm that you want to create a new folder.
Click Yes to move files from the old My Documents location to the new location, or click No if you do not want to move these files. Note that if you click No, the files in the old location are not deleted, but they are no longer visible from My Documents after the change.
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