Anyone using local profiles with Folder Redirection ?

[mattx]

Just out of interest is anyone using local profiles with Folder Redirection ?

[plock]

mandatory/roaming with folder redirection here...

EDIT: my previous school used local profiles with folder redirection...

[daveyboy]

Yep.

[Hobbsey]

Yep I have used local profiles with redirection on a 2003 server before and the CC3 networks that I manage also do, how can I help?

[mattx]

Yep I have used local profiles with redirection on a 2003 server before and the CC3 networks that I manage also do, how can I help?

Just interested really - I've been playing with them a bit and found them quite acceptable - may even leave them as is. I may [ if possible ] just move the teachers to Roaming and leave the students as Local....

[SpuffMonkey]

We used to do this - but the students got wise to the fact that pulling the network cable out during the login process gave them more access than they should have had. - On super mandatories now - and its much better.

[Blind]

We are using super mandatory profiles with redirection for the students and local profiles with redirection for the teachers. Much quicker than our old method of everyone using redirected profiles.

[richard.thomas]

At our school we have a script to check if certain network drives have been mapped and if not assume the pupil has unplugged the cable, gives them a scary dialogue message and then shuts down the machine... Infact i think the original script was found on this site somewhere...

[projector1]

i set this up earlier this year as a test and due to the benefits rolled it out site wide on the circ domian. Before this migration we did a have a network management application running,

We redirect the start menu and my docs.

The reason for the move

1 i wanted to save the school having to pay for third party software

2 i needed more of a challenge

3 if windows provided the ability to lock down the machines & the web provided resources to automate tasks then why use it.

4 if i do google search for a microsoft software issue i encounter, i will get much more hits then if i type in the name of the network management software.