Windows 10 and Folder Redirection

[craigcamacho]

Hi Guys,

 

We have just completed our Windows 7 to Windows 10 migration of about 800 computers and everything has gone reasonably well. We had an issue with Office 365 not activating for users but this was down to yellow triangle of death and the MSFT connect tests being blocked by our filtering but thats all sorted. The only thing I am not happy with is folder redirection and would really appreciate your feedback on how you do this now in Windows 10.

 

Previously with Windows 7 all i had set in Group Policy was "Redirect to the following location" and then "H:" and it worked how i wanted. When a user logged in the documents folder was still called documents and when a user saved something to documents it saved it to the users mapped home area of H:\. With laptop users if they went home then the Documents folder would still be there but would turn back into a local copy on C:\ and obviously all the data from their H:\ drive was no longer visible which wasnt a massive issue.

 

Setting Group Policy in this way no longer works and I currently have it set to "Redirect to Users Home Directory" (Have also tried create a folder and redirect to the following location options) which when the user logs in they no longer see a folder called Documents but a folder with their name on it. Although I dont really like this it does seem to work. It only really becomes an issue when laptop users go home and when they log in they no longer see their Documents, Pictures, Music etc folders which certain . I then turned on Offline files to combat this problem but this literally does seem to make a copy of their entire H:\ drive on each machine which over the course of time is going to be problematic. We have also had staff and students complaining of work going missing which I am guessing is down to Offline Files syncing issues.

 

What do you guys do at your schools? Is folder redirection and offline files still the way to go or are they considered an old technology now and have been replaced by something else?

Edited September 28, 2018 by craigcamacho

[djm968]

We redirect documents on the Windows 10 desktops that students use to the users home directories and our staff laptops and office based machines use OneDrive.