Thank you, Dan. This topic is sort of haunting me. It seems
like something that almost everyone has to deal with.
So if you use advanced folder redirection, what keeps the
redirection from happening over the WAN? Are you using this in conjunction with
offline files? In this context, I am not sure I see how OUs
would be different than Groups either way the policy is going to be applied
regardless of what Site they sit in.
Finally, you mentioned using DFS. I believe this would allow
a single namespace called company.com\home. Could you elaborate on how you are
using this for redirection.
Thanks again.
-- nme
From: Dan Holme
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 4:22 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Sites and
Folder Redirection | more
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 didnt want to replicate tons of user data in those
environments just for the few
So to make a long story short, we just
didnt 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
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 3:31
PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: [ActiveDir] Sites and
Folder Redirection | more
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.
-- nme
