Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 Inside Out

Managing User Data

It is important that users have access to the business data, software code, or accounting data on the network. They need access to the data to get their work done, and the organization needs to be operational 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Managing user data using folder redirection, group policy, offline files, and synchronization can help increase the network reliability and the availability of data. It can also reduce the time it takes to restore data in the event of hardware or software failures.

You want to make access to the data that each user and group requires invisible and seamless, and at the same time provide the most efficient process for restoring the data in case of a failure. Managing user data for fault tolerance ...