We have several sites in AD that are located in different continents
by very slow satellite links. Users at each site are grouped into OU's
based on their location and they have their 'My Document' redirected
to a local file server for their respective location.

However the problem we run into is users who travel to one of the
other locations and try to logon with their laptops, since it is
trying to synchronize their 'My Documents' it is extremely slooooow.
Any suggestions to prevent synchronization when not in their home
location?

eric.hammett@gmail.com wrote:
Folder redirection != offline files.... although offline files is frequently
used with folder redirection of My Documents.
Can the users not manually cancel the sync when they're not connecting to a
sufficiently fast network?
Depending on how your OUs are set up, you might be able to do something
fancy with group policy, but I'm not sure what, exactly - try posting in
m.p.windows.group_policy for more help if you want to go that route.

* eric.hammett@gmail.com <eric.hammett@gmail.com>:
My suggestion would be to use DFS with replication. This would
ensure that you have the redirected folders at all your sites.

You are right that this is a problem. Group Policy and Profiles have a slow
link detection, but not (AFAIK) offline folder synchronisation. In XP,
redirected My Documents are automatically made available offline, so if the
network is available they will try to synchronise.
If you leave My Documents in the profile, and using roaming profiles
instead, then the synchronisation of the roaming profile over slow links can
be set in Group Policy. Otherwise you can educate users to cancel the
synchronisation, but that's a bit dangerous if they get into the habit of
always cancelling.
Anthony
www.airdesk.co.uk



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On Mar 22, 3:03 am, Lukas Beeler <lb-li...@projectdream.org> wrote:
Lukas,

DFS was what I was originally considering however I dont' have much
experience with DFS and wanted to know what the implications would be
for large amounts of data over such slow links? I am wondering if the
data would ever fully replicate because we are talking 100 of GBs of
data.

Thanks,
Eric