Hello all. Long time lurker, first time poster
This discussion is interesting. We currently use roaming profiles and they've started to get a bit weighty and problematic, the two may be related.
We have problems with pupils missing files, work not being saved or propagating properly etc etc. After having a dig about on the web, i tried implementing folder redirection on their My Docs and Desktop to cut down on the constant copying when they log on all over the place.
This was my first foray into using redirection and, sod's law, we started getting some weird behaviour. The PCs, when logged off, now insist on synchronising everything with the server, and the little blue synchronising icons on everything were confusing people. Is this normal when using folder redirection? (the synchronisation i mean) I assumed that it'd work like a mapped network drive. We don't need offline files, desktops only.
Suffice to say, i've turned redirection off and defaulted the redirection, recreated the pupils' profiles and accounts. Sadly though, the PCs still insist on synchronising files. I've since trawled through GP and shut down all possibility of offline files/synchronising, yet it still happens. Driving me nuts.
Hope that all makes sense. I guess what i'm looking for is an easily maintained, idiot-proof solution (for them and me!) to our little situation. Any ideas shall be met with cookies / a furious batting of eyelashes / some cleavage, whatever floats your boats.
