Re: prevent users saving to desktop

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On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:06:21 -0700, outlook novice
<outlooknovice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

we have tried folder redirection and found that the items saved on desktop
appears both on the desktop and on their shared drive. Is there any other way
to prevent this?

And why is this a problem. The user saves to their desktop and the files is
saved in the home folder. The user save to the home folder and it appears on the
desktop. One location on the server but two ways of accessing it. Not to
locations.


Tried through group policy also using Computer Configuration / Windows
Settings / Security Settings / File System. Then add 2 files,

%AllUsersProfile%\Desktop

%UserProfile%\Desktop

"DaveMills" wrote:

Try "folder redirection" to place the desktop in the users home folder. Then
when they save to the desktop it will be in the home folder. With roaming
profiles all the folders in the profile should be redirected to avoid the issue
of having a very large profile.

On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:59:02 -0700, outlook novice
<outlooknovice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We have a new win server 2008. About 30 odd users in the domain. We would
like to prevent users saving to desktop and force them to save to their
network drive only. They have roaming profiles. We have tried to select the
deny write option on a users desktop folder in their profile but to no avail.
We have also tried a group policy to deny all users access to desktop but
they can still still save and we get a message when they log off that their
files can't be saved.

Is it possible to maybe prevent the desktop being an option when saving
items to the desktop or introduce an access denied message displayed to the
user?
--
Dave Mills
There are 10 types of people, those that understand binary and those that don't.

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Dave Mills
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