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I have not seen a reply to this thread so I thought I might
pitch in my thoughts: In my geographically distributed clients, we face the same
problem. We address it using global groups to represent the geographic
location of users. If a user is ‘transferred’ to another ‘site’
(location) we change their global group membership. The global group is used either to filter a GPO redirecting folders
to a specific server (or via a site-related DFS link) or the groups are used in
a single GPO to create “advanced” folder redirection, whereby you
can point groups to different servers. That way, traveling users, dial-in
users, etc. were accessing their folder-redirected-folders in their ‘home’
server … we didn’t want to replicate tons of user data in those
environments just for the ‘few’… So to make a long story short, we just didn’t use
site-linked GPOs for anything to do with user data. Also made it much easier
on the help desk issues, since help desk could change the membership of these
location-related global groups easily. Dan Holme Intelliem From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Noah Eiger Hello: I am
working with redirecting My Documents in various sites. I have some follow up
questions to the thread I started a few months ago. Some
sites have poor connectivity. There is no replication of data between sites
(for home directories). Laptop users use Offline Files. Single domain, W2k. All
redirection is handled via User GPOs. The root Home directory resides on a file
server at each site; users at that site point there based on the GPO. Security
is defined as per MSKB 274443. Where
to apply the GPO? As Aric pointed out, applied at the Site level will cause
users to redirect to the local Home share when they just drop by with their
laptops. What happens to Offline Files in this case? It seems better to create
OUs for uses at each Site and apply the GPO there. Under this scenario, would
Slow Link Detection prevent the redirection from trying to find Home over the
slow WAN link? Would it then just resort to Offline Files? Finally,
if we use DFS to create a unified namespace, all user home directories would be
created under a single Home directory. Without folder replication, how would we
control the Site and file server where the folder actually gets created? Many
TIA. --
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