The Best Damn Windows Server 2003 Book Period- P63:The latest incarnation of Microsoft’s server product,Windows Server 2003, brings many new features and improvements that make the network administrator’s job chapter will briefly summarize what’s new in 2003 and introduce you to the four members of the Windows Server 2003 family: the Web Edition, the Standard Edition, the Enterprise Edition, and the Datacenter Edition. | 586 Chapter 17 Working with Group Policy in an Active Directory Environment Folder redirection can be seen as a subset of roaming profiles. By specifying an alternate location for these folders on a network share the user has access to these folders no matter which computer he or she uses to log on. Of the four folders that can be redirected setting the My Documents folder for redirection is probably the most advantageous. Not only will the user have his or her data available at any computer but storing this data on the server allows the data to be easily backed up to tape or other offline storage media. As an administrator you can also set quotas on server storage helping to keep the size of the My Documents folder in can also take advantage of the offline folders feature of Windows 2000 and Windows XP to keep the data available to users when they are not on the network. When setting up folder redirection you should allow the system to create the folders in the location where the data will be directed. A number of permissions must be set correctly to maintain security on the redirected best bet is to let the system handle this part of the process. Folder redirection settings are located in the User Configuration area of the GPO under Windows Settings. To enable redirection of one of the four folders follow these steps 1. Right-click the folder name and select Properties. 2. In the Target tab of the window you can select the setting to use for redirection as shown in Figure can select between two options for the location of the redirected folder. The basic option redirects the folder to the same folder path for all users. For the Application Data and Desktop folders there are three options for the folder location Creating a directory for each user in the path specified Redirecting all users to the same location Pointing the folder to the local user profile location Figure Selecting Options for Redirecting My Documents Working
