Microsoft® Windows® Desktop Deployment Resource Kit

Folder Redirection

Group Policy make it possible to control where users store data by using the Folder Redirection feature, which allows you to redirect users’ folders to a location on a network server. You can redirect the Application Data, My Documents, Start Menu, and Desktop folders from users’ profiles to a network location. There are two big benefits of using Folder Redirection. The first is that it removes typically large folders from roaming user profiles and stores them centrally, making the logon process much faster because the roaming user profile contains less data. The second is that it gives users access to all of their documents from any computer, even if you don’t deploy roaming user profiles on your network. See Chapter 12, for ...