RE: Folder re-direction and "Offline files".

Hi,

I see your point and have considered the DFS, however this is not a true
"redundancy" IMO. If a WAN link goes down, then they have no servers to
choose from with DFS or not.

A better option would be to cache the files locally on the workstations.

To combat the "footprints" I would delete cached copies of profiles with
GPO. I could then still SYNC the My Docs folder with offline files.

Thanks for the info,

Mark

"mtstream" wrote:

This is the standard way of having the files available whenever someone is
not connected to the sever (laptops, down server, etc). The downside is if
you users really are roaming frequently. The files are cached on every
system they log into, so there's a footprint left behind. Some files such as
.pst cannot be synched.

The files appear to be one big lump when you are looking specifically in
Offline Files. However, your users will probably never do this. When you
are offline just open My Documents or any other folder and the cached files
will be viewable from there.

If your systems aren't mobile (leave the office) a better option for
redundancy would be DFS replication. This would allow you to have a share
replicated on two servers - if one server goes down the workstations will be
directed to the other.

"Mrpush" wrote:

Hello,

MS 2003 server, GPO set up to redirect certain folders on network server.

I need to re-direct folders because I'm using ROAMING PROFILES and I don't
want log-in to be to slow.

I will re-direct my users My Documents folders (where they keep all user
files) to the server, however, I can't escape the feeling I'll have if the
file server would go off line and users would have NO FILES to work on.

So, I'd like to impliment OFFLINE FILES so that they would always have a
copy of there files locally, and could work on them if the server were
off-line.

The local file changes would "SYNC" with the server and update the server
files with all changes made.

Is this accpetable or is there some better way to keep a synced copy of
files on local desktops?

(A problem that I noted was that OFFLINE FILES of folders do not show the
folders themselves, just a big grouping of all the files set to offline.
Weird, but they would be there.)

Thanks much,

Mark
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