Choosy GPO imposed Folder Redirection

[JPJeffery]

I've set up a GPO to redirect the 'Desktop' and 'My Documents' folders from users' C: drives to the local file server.

This works fine but a check of the contents of the larger examples of these locally held folders shows that the main issue is (unsurprisingly) iTunes. Don't tell me you were surprised.

Anyway, the GPO feature seems to suggest you can exclude subfolders but I'm naffed if I can get it to work.

So, my question is, does anyone know how to get this done?

JJ
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[GrimR]

wonder if file screening could be an option

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/ar...ng-File-Screening-Windows-Server-2003-R2.html

 

[JPJeffery]

That's pretty darn close.

Unfortunately, these paragraphs highlight a probable stumbling block with such screened files in roaming profiles:

"Using File Screens with Roaming Profiles

Be careful configuring file screens when you have roaming profiles enabled on your network as you can get yourself into a bind. For example, say user Bob Smith has a roaming profile that is saved in a folder named %username% (that is, bsmith) in a share named Profiles on file server MTIT-14JCI2H1Y5. In other words, the network path to Bob’s profile is \\MTIT-14JCI2H1Y5\Profiles\bsmith. And let’s say you’ve configured a file screen on the Profiles folder to block roaming users from saving video files. Now let’s say Bob downloads dancing pigs.mpg from the Internet and saves the file to his desktop. Unfortunately, when Bob tries to log off his computer, he gets the error message displayed in Figure 9: (click the link below for Figure 9)

What’s happening here is that Bob’s computer can’t save dancing pigs.mpg since his roaming profile is a subfolder of the Profiles share on the file server. Because of this, the whole operation of updating Bob’s roaming profile to the Profiles share also fails, so any changes Bob has made to his desktop during his user session are lost."

JJ
[small][purple]Variables won't. Constants aren't[/purple]
There is no apostrophe in the plural of PC (or PST, or CPU, or HDD, or FDD, and so on)[/small]