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I’m considering using offline folder synchronization with folder redirection using Server 2008 + Windows XP & Vista clients.
Currently I’m not using redirection at all. Every user has a personal folder on the file share that is readable by everyone and writable by the user. Inside this folder is a private folder to which only the user can read & write files. Thus most of a user’s files can be accessed by others if they are away from the office, except those that need to be kept in confidence.
If I use folder redirection with offline file sync, is it possible to keep these private folders? If so, will they be available offline?
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What are you redirecting? My Documents, App Data? AFAIK, you can’t redirect custom folders via GPO, meaning you can’t redirect folders that aren’t in the pre-built list of folders available for redirection. What do you mean “keep these folders”? Do you mean “will they be redirected?”
EDIT
The answers should be: yes & yes. What I would recommend is to configure this for a single user as a test by moving the user to a sub OU of their current OU and linking a new GPO that has your redirection settings to this sub OU.
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