My Music Re-direct

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I have 300 users with roaming profiles.

With our AD structure, I can re-direct the My Documents folder to a home
drive on the network, but I cannot find any way via GP to shove the My Music
folder back to the person's local C: drive. All of these files are clogging
up our servers!

No luck doing searches here or on the net in general to find a solution,
short of going to each computer and doing it by hand. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Sheldon
 
Unfortunately, I don't think its do-able. This has come up before and it
doesn't seem like you can redirect subfolders of My Documents to different
locations. You can modify certain folder locations by tweaking the reg
values under
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User
Shell Folders, but if I remember correctly, if you do this with sub-folders
of My Documents, and My Docs is being redirected, then on the next logon,
those sub-folders are "un-directed". But it may be worth testing again as
its been a while.

Darren

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Thanks. I have manually re-directed the My Music folder and yes, it does
re-appear in the old spot, along with all of the files that are in there! You
have answered that question as well.

Perhaps this should be passed along to MSFT. We network admins don't want
all of this blasted music on our servers. We need a way to handle
this....quickly!

Sheldon
 
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nesdog said:
Thanks. I have manually re-directed the My Music folder and yes, it
does re-appear in the old spot, along with all of the files that are
in there! You have answered that question as well.

Perhaps this should be passed along to MSFT. We network admins don't
want all of this blasted music on our servers.
Click to expand...

You need a written company policy outlining acceptable computer use, which
your users should sign. You can also implement a logon banner that states
'Clicking OK indicates your agreement to abide by Company X's written
computer use policy.'

We need a way to handle
this....quickly!
Click to expand...

I like TreeSize Pro (shareware) - helps you find stuff. Then when you find
stuff, you can print reports. Then you can give the reports to the culprits'
managers and let them handle it.

Schedule batch files to delete *.mp3, *.mp*, *.avi, *.blahblahblah, can be
helpful too -

"There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems." - Ed
Crowley
 
I didn't see a way in Group Policy to stop Media Player from 'ripping' the
CD in the first place... did I miss something, or is that not a
policy-configurable option?

Ken


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