Re: Synchronize My Documents

lab-guy <labguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My "people" here don't want to be part of a domain; they insist on
logging on to their local machines and mapping drives across to the
server.

Any suggestions to automatically backup their local My Documents
Folder to a directory on the server ?

Thanks

Mike

Um....why are your end users dictating this decision in the first place?
Aren't your "people" informed of the company's IT standards and
expected to abide by them? Why do they even *have* local accounts? I'll bet
they're full admins on their workstations, too - sounds like you've got your
work cut out for you, sadly.

The performance and reliability of running backups across the network will
stink; I don't recommend this. You can't easily use offline files if they
aren't logging into the domain, I believe (and I don't think offline files
have a place on LAN connected computers anyway; I've had far too many
problems with this feature to even want this on laptops).
You could set up a script on each user's workstation to run nightly, but
really, in a business, this is a matter of the cart leading the horse, and
it's nuts. I'd take this up with management.

Ultimately, this is not a technical issue, it's a behavioral one. If they
log into the domain you can use group policy folder redirection for My
Documents (and Desktop & Application Data).






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