Windows Administration Resource Kit: Productivity Solutions for IT Professionals

3-5: Design and Implement Folder Redirection

Solution overview

Type of solution	Guidance
Features and tools	Folder redirection, Group Policy, registry
Solution summary	Leverage folder redirection to relocate user data stores to servers, and learn to redirect Windows XP folders such as Favorites, Music, and Videos.
Benefits	Unify the storage of both Windows XP and Windows Vista clients.

Introduction

In the good old days, we had the concept of a user's home directory: a mapped drive in which users would store their data. Home directories, or "home folders" if you're hip, are exposed to the user by a drive letter, such as the "H:" drive (for "Home"), the "U:" drive (for "User"), or the "P:" drive (for "Personal"). It would be amusing to survey organizations ...