Logoff script to sync My Docs to a server drive

[CamEyeAm]

We have a network of approximately 300 desktop and 50 notebook users. We run XP desktops and Win 2003 servers.

We have used Group Policy to redirect My Documents, Desktop and Application data for over a year and are finding it to be more trouble than it is worth.

What we want to do is go back to users having their My Documents on their local workstation, but when they log off have it sync any changed files back to a server 'home drive' (for lack of a better term) so that we can provide backups of user's documents.

Can anyone help create a script to do this?

 

[drew1701d]

no need to create a script, simply enable offline file synchronization. When the user logs off all files are copied to whatever destination you specify, i.e. their U: drive. This can be more painful than using redirected directories, out of curiosity, what problems are you experiencing? We went the opposite way as the synchronization was taking too long so we disabled offline synchronization.

 

[CamEyeAm]

We have used Offline File Sync, but we ran into some issues after changing the server that is being used for the My Docs files. The real issue actually comes from redirecting and using Offline File sync for Application Data. If you are thinking of doing that, be afraid...be very afraid.

 

[drew1701d]

Yeah we're not doing that, as using offline file sync was a PITA for application data, we just use folder redirection for my documents & Application Data with no offline file sync to keep the machines dataless in a sense