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Folder Redirection Group Policy Settings
With folder redirection group policy settings, you can redirect user profile folders to a network share. When
a folder is redirected, all data is stored directly on the network share during the user session.
You can use these settings to redirect folders that must be highly available. View Persona Management copies
updates from the local user profile to the remote profile as often as once a minute, depending on the value you
set for the profile upload interval. However, if a network outage or failure on the local system occurs, a user's
updates since the last replication might not be saved in the remote profile. In situations where users cannot
afford a temporary loss of a few minutes of recent work, you can redirect those folders that store this critical
data.
The following rules and guidelines apply to folder redirection:
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When you enable this setting for a folder, you must type the UNC path of the network share to which the
folder is redirected.
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If %username% is not part of the folder path that you configure, View Persona Management appends
%username% to the UNC path.
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As a best practice, configure the folder path to include %username%, but make sure that the last subfolder
in the path uses the name of the redirected folder, such as My Videos. The last folder in the path is displayed
as the folder name on the user's desktop. For details, see “Configuring Paths for Redirected Folders,” on
page 183.
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You configure a separate setting for each folder. You can select particular folders for redirection and leave
others on the local View desktop. You can also redirect different folders to different UNC paths.
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If a folder redirection setting is disabled or not configured, the folder is stored on the local View desktop
and managed according to the View Persona Management group policy settings.
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If View Persona Management and Windows roaming profiles are configured to redirect the same folder,
View Persona Management's folder redirection takes precedence over Windows roaming profiles.
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Folder redirection applies only to applications that use the Windows shell APIs to redirect common folder
paths. For example, if an application writes a file to %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming, the file is written to
the local profile and not redirected to the network location.
You can redirect the following folders to a network share:
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Application Data (roaming)
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Contacts
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Cookies
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Desktop
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Downloads
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Favorites
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History
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Links
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My Documents
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My Music
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My Pictures
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My Videos
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Network Neighborhood
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