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| Redirect users' folders |
| Managing users' data can be a real challenge. Most users aren't very good about backing up their |
| documents, and many wouldn't know how if they had the inclination. You can reduce |
| administrative overhead considerably and provide a better experience for users by redirecting their |
| folders to a server, where you can control how and when they're backed up. |
| Windows 2000 group policy allows you to redirect the Application Data, Desktop, My Documents, |
| My Pictures, and Start Menu folders. When the user logs on and group policy is applied, Windows |
| looks to the specified network location for the folders. For example, you might redirect a user's My |
| Documents folder to his or her home folder on a network file server. When the user double-clicks |
| the My Documents icon, Windows displays the contents of the remote folder, rather than the user's |
| Redirecting a user's documents to a network share enables you to easily back them up. You don't |
| need to worry whether the user has left his or her computer running, and you can schedule the |
| backup as needed. The capability to back up at the server also eliminates the need to run backup |
| agents on users' computers. |
| To configure Folder Redirection policies, open the user's OU in the Active Directory, create or |
| modify a Group Policy Object (GPO) for it, and configure the policies in the User |
| Configuration\Windows Settings\Folder Redirection branch as needed to redirect client folders to a |
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