Greetings,
I'm struggling to solve my issue with redirected folders (Desktop, Documents) and travelling laptops. The situation is following:
- We have an OU for notebooks
- On this OU, we have two GPOs - one for folder redirection and the other one sets "prevent usage of offline files -> disabled"
- Folders are redirected to network share with DFS path - \\domain\folder\%username%
- As long as laptops can reach the fileserver hosting this DFS path, everything is okay
- When the laptop goes outside of the corporate network, the user gets error stating that \\domain\redirectionfolder\%username%\Desktop cannot be reached and something like local desktop is provided to the user. User makes some changes on this desktop and these are lost as soon as user connects back to corporate network.
I thought redirected folders are automatically synchronised and accessible offline. I don't know why is the laptop trying to reach the DFS share when it is outside of the corp. net.
I discussed this situation with much more experienced friend of mine and he said that I used the concept of the folder redirection incorrectly. What I should do instead is to map the network drive (e.g. W:\) pointing to \\domain\redirectionfolder\%username% to each user and redirect their desktop and documents to W:\. Problem is, I could not find the correct setting in GPO that would say to change the location of "Desktop" folder to W:\.
May I hear your opinion which approach is better in order to solve this issue with laptops outside of the corporate network? I'm really clueless at the time.
Thank you in advance,
Best regards,
Standa