Favorites Redirection

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Hello,

I've been doing some reading on doing Favorites Redirection. I see some
people have found the best way to do it to be doing a logon script mirroring
the favorites folder, just wondering if anyone else has any other ways
they've done it and found it to be more successful?

Tia,
J
 
Hey, there:

Our organization wrestled with this for a long time, before finding what
we like as a solution.
We added a line to our logon script that imports the following setting
into the registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User
Shell Folders

We had the value set to "\\servername\sharename\%username%\favorites"
and that works well. However, because it is a Hex value, we did it in
RegEdit first, and then just exported the setting. Users are happy
because favorites follow them from machine to machine, and we're happy
because we don't have undue network traffic copying favorites each time
a user logs on.

The only drawback is that if you loose network connectivity (or if you
are on a laptop), you have no favorties.

HTH
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Steve Athanas
MCSE:Security (2003)
 
Hi Steve,

Thanks so much for the response. I'll look into this. Maybe I can find a way
around the lack of connectivity\lack of favorites issue that plagues laptop
users.

Anyways, thanks again. Greatly appreciated.
Joshua
 
Joshua12 said:
Hi Steve,

Thanks so much for the response. I'll look into this. Maybe I
can find a way
around the lack of connectivitylack of favorites issue that
plagues laptop
users.

Anyways, thanks again. Greatly appreciated.
Joshua


 > >Hello,
 > >
 > >I've been doing some reading on doing Favorites
Redirection. I see some
 > >people have found the best way to do it to be doing a
logon script mirroring
 > >the favorites folder, just wondering if anyone else
has any other ways
 > >they've done it and found it to be more successful?
 > >
 > >Tia,
 > >J
 > >
 > >
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Hi,

I have a logon script that creates the favorites folder in the users
home drive. I have home drives mapped to H:\ for all my users in
their account properties.

I have another logon script that is a vbscript that changes the
registry in their profile. It changes it for the
HKLU-Software-Microsoft-Windows-CurrentVersion-Explorer-Shell Folders
and User Shell Folders.

I have enabled Offline Files on my drives and have allowed "mapped
folders always available offline for laptops only (XP Only) in Group
Policy.

Cheers,

Lara
 
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