topic Re: SBS 2003 My documents Redirection in Windows Server 2003

SBS 2003 My documents Redirection

trbal — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 04:12:26 GMT

HI

I have setup a my documents redirection on dl380 runnung sbs 2003. But the policy has not taken effect even after restarts and multiple poin/logout.is there anyway i can spped it up.

Thx

Re: SBS 2003 My documents Redirection

Joel Belizario — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:25:03 GMT

Have you tried using the "gpupdate" command?

Also have a look at:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b24bf2d5-0d7a-4fc5-a14d-e91d211c21b2&displaylang=en

Re: SBS 2003 My documents Redirection

trbal — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:49:30 GMT

Hi

The issue is the user folder gets created in the network drive but the contents of the my documents are not there.

Thx

Re: SBS 2003 My documents Redirection

Jenny Butler — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:34:44 GMT

I may be totally missing what you are saying, but you may need to go to the PC and right click on "My Documents", then click on Properties, then click on Move and tell it to move My Documents to the network drive. II don't remember whether this would move what's already there (you may have to do that manually) but it should then place any new files on the network drive.

Re: SBS 2003 My documents Redirection

Will Niccolls — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:07:35 GMT

Start the Group Policy Managment console and run the Group Policy Results wizard. This will output the group policies applying to the specified pc and user.

Also check the Share and NTFS permissions on the destination drive.

Re: SBS 2003 My documents Redirection

trbal — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:57:16 GMT

Thx will

The policy is set and the permissions are ok.The user folder is created but the files are not redirected all the folders show 0 bytes of data in them.

One more quick question can i redirect my folders to a maxtor external storage device
MAXTOR SHARED STORAGE II

regards
Balaji

Re: SBS 2003 My documents Redirection

Will Niccolls — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:37:41 GMT

Is it all PC's or just one?

Sometimes the offline folder gets corrupted.

Try the procedure in this link. But be sure to back up the data first!!!!! Copy to another folder outside of My Docs

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/230738

That link shows how to reinitialize offline files. I had a client once with the same problem and after this process it worked...

Re: SBS 2003 My documents Redirection

trbal — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 01:07:45 GMT

Thx will

i will check it.In my previous post i had also asked about redirecting my documents to a shared storage devive (maxtor shared storage). Any thoughts on that.

Regards

Re: SBS 2003 My documents Redirection

Will Niccolls — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:47:23 GMT

I see no reason you couldn't redirect to the shared storage, if Windows can see it as a drive then it should work. I'm curious what type of drive and connections it has to the server? Is it a NAS? Or USB? What type of drives and their speed?

These variables of course affect the performance.

Re: SBS 2003 My documents Redirection

trbal — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:21:44 GMT

Thx will

The Network Drive i have is Maxtor shared storage http://www.maxtorsolutions.com/en/catalog/MSS_II/

check the link and let me know if i can set permissions on this bcoz it just has two types either public folder with access for all or a private with access restrictions.

rgds

Re: SBS 2003 My documents Redirection

Will Niccolls — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:44:48 GMT

I took a cursory look at this. I'd hesitate to use it in a business environment as it doesn't seem to really be 'business class', (i.e. the drives are 7200rpm, and I don't think they are scsi or sas) nor do I see that it supports NTFS, which would be necessary for Windows to use it with Active Directory user and group permissions settings. As for the permissions settings it does support, it may be possible to achieve your requirements.