My Documents/offline files/libraries
I'm starting to look at deploying Windows 7 in our organization. Everyone's still on XP. I don't get what Win 7 has done to My Documents. We have users who sync offline copies of selected folders in their server based files folder. Win 7 won't allow the whole server folder added to a library (can't index it) unless they add the whole server folder as an offline copy. Some users have huge server folders and don't want the whole thing copied offline to their computers. The problem arises when they click Open or Save within Office - since those programs are looking in My Documents. XP made it so easy to point their My Documents folders to a network location. I'm not finding a simple workaround for this. Help!
January 14th, 2010 8:13pm
We use a GPO to redirect users My Documents to the server share. See this for more information http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732275.aspx but your question would be better served if you post in the Server section of Technet http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/windowsserver Hope that helps.MCSE, MCSA, MCDST
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January 14th, 2010 8:25pm
Now if these users are mobile users (laptops, etc) who may not always have the ability to VPN to your network, then that would be a different situation.MCSE, MCSA, MCDST
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January 14th, 2010 8:27pm
Some are mobile users, but having an offline copy of their entire network folder is impossible. I'll repost my question in the servers section.
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January 14th, 2010 8:38pm
If you redirect the My Documents folder to a network location, the folder will be available offline automatically. Network shared folders cannot be indexed unless they are available offline. This behavior is by design. Why not allowing it available offline?
To redirect the My Document folder, just right-click on it, choose Properties. Click Locations tab, and enter the new location.
On the server side you can add GPO for folder redirection.
Folder Redirection Overview
Also you can refer this document. Arthur Xie - MSFT
January 19th, 2010 6:41am
We can't make all user documents available offline - the network folders are too large. I, for example, have 98Gb worth of folders on server. This is a serious design flaw.
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January 19th, 2010 7:08pm
Hi,
We will report your concern to proper department and they will consider your advice. Thank you for your feedback.Arthur Xie - MSFT
January 21st, 2010 6:23am
This answers doesn't help at all, I already know what for the folder redirection is, and I know how to use it
But the answer on how to fix the issue when you already have MyDocuments/home folder redirected to a server on windows XP computers working properly and are no longer working after upgrading to windows 7 is not good
We need their MyDocuments folder in the server and available offline, is there any real solution for this?
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July 13th, 2010 5:00am