RE: Alternatives to Windows offline files
- From: v-jasont@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jason Tan (MSFT))
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 08:07:52 GMT
Hi Simon,
Thanks for posting!
Based on my experience, you may use Folder Redirection to accomplish your
goal in Windows 2000/2003 domain via Group Policy. In Group Policy Object
Editor, you can use Folder Redirection to redirect certain special folders
to network locations. Special folders are those folders, such as My
Documents and My Pictures, that are located under Documents and Settings.
Folder Redirection is located under User Configuration in the console tree
of Group Policy Object Editor. There are several basic options for Folder
Redirection. For each basic option, there is an advanced version of that
option.
You may refer to the following URL for more detailed information:
Folder Redirection
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/Serve
rHelp/a1b7ce04-708b-4145-830a-cadfc003acd3.mspx
However, please note that Windows NT 4.0 is out of our support boundary.
since you are still in a Windows NT domain. It is recommended that you post
this question in the microsoft.public.windowsnt.domain newsgroup. That
newsgroup is primarily for issues involving Windows NT. We recommend
posting appropriately so you will get the most qualified pool of
respondents, and so other partners who regularly read the newsgroups can
either share their knowledge or learn from your interaction with us. Thanks
for your understanding!
Best Regards,
Jason Tan
Microsoft Online Partner Support
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| Subject: Alternatives to Windows offline files
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| Hi,
|
| I was refer from the windowsxp.general forum to post here for
suggestions.
| Currently, we're implementing Windows offline files for our users for
| backup. Basically the way it works is we alter the "My Documents" folder
on
| each computer to point to a network drive (i.e.
H:\server\username\files).
| However, this is slowing down a lot of our laptop users - degrade
| performance and the sync takes a long time when they put the computer
before
| standby. A lot of times, if they login through VPN, "My Documents" lost
| track of the path and default to "C:\Documents and Settings\username\My
| Documents".
|
| What I'd like to know is if there is any backup software out there that
will
| backup similar to offline files, but instead of storing the master copy
on
| the network, it saves locally, then mirror the data to the file server?
| However, I'd like to maintain the ability to sync when user logon/logoff,
| scheduled run for example at noon (lunch time). All of these can be set
| from a central location so minimal configuration for the end users. It
also
| needs to have ability to save open files with scheduled backups.
|
| Or is there another better way to handle backing up of laptop user files?
| We're still on NT4 domain.
|
| Thanks,
| Simon
|
|
|
.
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