That's what I'm hoping. I may just have to try it and see what happens. Worst-case scenario, I've got 500 users who can't get to their stuff. No biggie.
;-) -----Original Message----- From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 10:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving Roaming Profiles & Redirected Folders If you do the folder redirection with a GPO, couldn't you just edit the GPO and do a gpudate /force? Joe Heaton -----Original Message----- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 6:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving Roaming Profiles & Redirected Folders What I'm trying to figure out is whether these paths are hard-coded in the registry somewhere. Changing the paths in AD (for each user account plus in the GPOs) is no problem. But I'm concerned that this may not be enough. Could be wrong, though... -----Original Message----- From: Don Guyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 9:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving Roaming Profiles & Redirected Folders Maybe a script to run against AD to change the path(s)? Quick Google brought up quite a few. Don Guyer Systems Engineer Information Services Department Prudential Fox Roach/ Trident 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Ph: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 www.prufoxroach.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 9:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving Roaming Profiles & Redirected Folders Yeah, but for a while both servers have to exist simultaneously--so that's not an option. One alternative I had read about (a bit late now, I'm afraid) is to use DFS for roaming profiles and folder redirection so as to avoid this exact problem. But that seems to introduce a new problem, in that offline files and DFS apparently don't play well together. -----Original Message----- From: Don Guyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 9:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving Roaming Profiles & Redirected Folders Wouldn't naming the replacement server the same name and assigning it the same IP as the retired server handle that? Don Guyer Systems Engineer Information Services Department Prudential Fox Roach/ Trident 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Ph: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 www.prufoxroach.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 8:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Moving Roaming Profiles & Redirected Folders Our client machines (all XP and Vista) make use of roaming profiles and folder redirection. They look to something like \\server1\profiles and \\server1\folders for this. The "profiles" and "folders" shares are located on a PowerVault SCSI storage system that's attached to Server1. Server1 has reached its end of life, and is being replaced with Server2. My plan is to disconnect the PowerVault from Server1 and plug it into Server2 (more about that in another thread). I'll then need to reconfigure users accounts and the relevant GPOs to point to \\server2\profiles and \\server2\folders. Has anyone ever done this? Any caveats? I've been doing some research, and some of what I've read seems to indicate that this can be trickier than it sounds--especially if Offline Folders are in use (which we have enabled for all of our machines so users can access their stuff even if disconnected from the network). 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