Offline Folders , Redirection, Homedrive and My Documents set-up
John
We have Windows 2003 AD with XP SP3 Workstations and Portable/Laptops.
Currently everyone has a %homedrive% set within their profile in AD which
points to \\servername\share\%username%, which is mapped to the P: drive.
When the drive is mapped we rename the drive to "Private_Documents_Only".
We are also in the middle of testing Microsoft App-V 4.5 (aka Softgrid) and
wish store the App-V userdata on a mapped drive which must be available
offline to laptop users.
Thus far we have mapped a V: drive for all App-V users to
\\servername\appvdata$\%username and hidden the drive. We've also set the
share so all files and programs will be automatically available offline.
Lastly we have created a policy to disable offline folders and applied this
to all workstations. (Not laptops)
With this set-up we have a few problems and requirements and am hopeing that
someone can help...
Problems:
1. Some users keep saving work data to their %homedrive% and their
colleagues can't access this data as this data is in their %username% folder
and NTFS ACL's applied
NB: No I don't want to play with ACL's etc.
2. Some users save their work data in My Documents and again this is not
available to their colleagues and is not backed up as the data is not on the
network
3. The %homedrive% is syncronizing offline folders whilst offline even
though offline files have been disabled on the share
Requirements:
1. Set the users %homedrive% to a shared network location depending on AD
group membership. - We know how to do this :)
2. Re-direct My Documents to the new %homedrive%
3. Stop the re-direction creating any folders (My Music rubbish) etc in the
new shared %homedrive%
4. On the laptops stop the offline folders synchronizing on the new
%homedrive%/my documents.
In short we want to make sure that when the users save documents they save
to the correct shared drive and user training doesn't always cut it when
users don't often listen!
It's not too much to ask is it?