Hi,

I've been trying to read about these features as we're soon to migrate 
oour 60 users to new win2008r2 servers.

Currently with w2003r2 the users are set to roaming profiles and login 
times varies from acceptable to totally unacceptable :-)  In addidion 
their home folders are '..Made available Offline'.

I consider using redirected folders for all user data which need to be 
backed up when moving everything over to the new servers.  How ever I'm 
not sure that I completely understand the concept of redirected folders 
compared to roaming profiles together with offline files for the home 
folders.

During the migration I plan to automatically copy the users' home folder 
contents to the new redirected My Documents folders.  Also I plan to 
redirect the Favorites, Desktop and Application Data folders.

In the above scenario, will the users automatically have their personal 
data available when connected at work and also when they are offline at 
home?  If not, do I still need to use the 'Offline files' feature (I 
hope not).

Please enlighten me :-)

jake

"Jake" <jake44@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:eBUD81BmKHA.2188@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to read about these features as we're soon to migrate 
> oour 60 users to new win2008r2 servers.
>
> Currently with w2003r2 the users are set to roaming profiles and login 
> times varies from acceptable to totally unacceptable :-)  In addidion 
> their home folders are '..Made available Offline'.
>
> I consider using redirected folders for all user data which need to be 
> backed up when moving everything over to the new servers.  How ever I'm 
> not sure that I completely understand the concept of redirected folders 
> compared to roaming profiles together with offline files for the home 
> folders.
>
> During the migration I plan to automatically copy the users' home folder 
> contents to the new redirected My Documents folders.  Also I plan to 
> redirect the Favorites, Desktop and Application Data folders.
>
> In the above scenario, will the users automatically have their personal 
> data available when connected at work and also when they are offline at 
> home?  If not, do I still need to use the 'Offline files' feature (I hope 
> not).
>
> Please enlighten me :-)
>
> jake


See if my blog helps out explaining folder redirection.

Folder Redirection
http://msmvps.com/blogs/acefekay/archive/2009/09/08/folder-redirection.aspx


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Den 19.01.2010 04:48, skreiv Ace Fekay [MVP-DS, MCT]:

> See if my blog helps out explaining folder redirection.
>
> Folder Redirection
> http://msmvps.com/blogs/acefekay/archive/2009/09/08/folder-redirection.aspx
>

Thanks Ace,

I hoped to get rid of Offline Files in the process.  Any better 
alternative to sync home folders to local notebook disks...?

I'll probably go for redirecting my documents only, but would also like 
to redirect Internet favorites.  However I understand that it is not on 
the list of 'preferred' redirecting candidates...

The new scenario will be w2008r2 domain controllers / file servers and 
win7pro clients.  Any *new possibilities* not covered in your blog as of 
syncing home folders / redirection / DFS with these OSes?

jake