Re: My Documents Redirect

From: Chad A. Gross [SBS MVP] (chad.gross_at_laytonflower.nospam.com)
Date: 03/19/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 19:59:26 -0600

I concur with Dale :^)

What I do on every SBS build is to create a new top-level share on the
server called Redirect, then configure my GPO to redirect each user's
profile folders (My Docs, Start Menu, Desktop & Application Data) to
\\<servername>\Redirect\%username%\<profile_folder> We then make sure that
the individual user shares (under \\<servername>\users) are accessible to
all users. We then instruct our users that anything they want to share
should be saved to their home folder, and anything they want to keep private
should be saved to their My Documents - which is easily handled by having
the redirect target share be completely separate from the Users share . . . 

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Dale Networkguy wrote:
> The default and recommended behavior of My Documents Redirection is
> that every user has their own server location that can be
> synchronized for offline file usage.  Also each user redirect is only
> accessible by that user (not even the Domain Admin can list the
> contents).  This is for obvious privacy and security reasons and this
> assures everyone that this is "their" own area; in fact the NTFS
> permissions get configured such that each user is the "creator owner"
> of this user folder.  The only way anyone else is going to have
> access is if the Domain Admin breaks this ownership by assuming it.
> There is no way a Domain Admin can access any user files without the
> user be able to discover this.  This of course makes a lot of sense
> in the big picture providing user confidence and administrator "I'm
> not messing with your files" believability.
>
> If many users need to save work in a common folder there are other
> ways to do that.  Remember you can also tinker around with the "Home
> Folder" path in each user's profile to set up an alternate (not
> enforced) pathway.  Do some research on this is you are interested as
> the concept is too large to do it justice in a smalll quip.
>
> The "To Do List" in SBS Server Manager provides a configuration tool
> for setting up My Document Redirection.  It works and is
> straightforward and should be very effective for achieving proper My
> Document redicrection.
>
> One more thing.  ...In the event your users work on different PC's or
> if their PC completely crashes, the redirect saves the day.  PC
> Recovery is made much less catastrophic when no user data is lost as
> a consequence of a PC failure event.  This of cource works by default
> of this "To Do List" implemented methodology.
>
> Regards,
> Dale
>
> "David Rosen" wrote:
>
>> In the "Users Shared Folders" I created a Shared Folder called "OUR
>> DOCUMENTS".  This folder appears along with the other user folders
>> except it shows that it is shared.
>>
>> using "Configure My Documents Redirection", I have each computers "MY
>> DOCUMENTS" folders set to redirect to the "OUR DOCUMENTS" folder on
>> the server, which works out fine.  I set the Quotas up to 5GB on the
>> hard Drive.
>>
>> The problem is that when I check the Location on the server, there
>> are no files to be found even though each user still has their
>> documents on their own computers.
>>
>> What I would like to happen (Ideally) is that all the documents are
>> in one folder on the server.  When each user creates and saves a
>> document in their My Documents folder, the server will have it in
>> the folder and everyone will have access to it.
>>
>> Please Help

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