Hello everyone

Is folder redirection appropriate for the windows 7 laptop users? better than roaming profile?

Currently, our laptop users enable windows desktop folder redirection through group policy. They often copy some big files to their desktop when they get off work, but sometime when they back home and open laptop, they find those files can't be opened, I guess the reason is they shutdown the machine before all of the offline file are cached.

Is there any way to let folder redirection store file locally at first then sync to net share?

thanks.

• Edited by dave chen 47 minutes ago

Hi

 You could configure work folders on Windows server 2012 r2

check this article about work folder

http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2013/07/09/introducing-work-folders-on-windows-server-2012-r2.aspx

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn265974.aspx

as Burak suggested you can use Work Folders if you have Windows 2012 R2.

Or you can do the old school method, use "SyncToy" then configure on the task scheduler what time you want to sync.

Another method is to use a batch file with robocopy and when the restart or shutdown, copy the desktop, my documents or other folders to the server. 

If you just want to backup users data, old school methods should do the task.