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AppData Folder Redirection with Roaming Profiles
I have Windows 7 Clients on a Windows 8 R2 domain. I am using Folder Redirection for Documents (as well as My Music, My Pictures and My Videos). I also use Roaming Profiles. The profiles have started getting large causing user login times to increase. I am looking into also redirecting AppData(Roaming). In my test environment I have redirected AppData(Roaming) to the users Home Folder (as desceibed in many articles I have read). When I do this the users have access full access to the AppData folder and as users go are apt to jack with it. Is there a way to dynamically restrict access to this folder? Should I have these redirected else ware? Or am I missing something?
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The problem is since the AppData(Roaming) folder is redirected to (and created in) their home share they have access to it... I have not used ABE before but from a quick read on it, it seems it will hide folders a user does not have access to. Not sure if this will work in this case.
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To optimize the login process I ended up excluding the following from syncing with the roaming profile:
%appdata%\Roaming\Microsof
This folder contains 40 or 50 MBs of template content that is not necessary.
We'll see if this speeds things up at all.
%appdata%\Roaming\Microsof
This folder contains 40 or 50 MBs of template content that is not necessary.
We'll see if this speeds things up at all.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd772681(v=ws.10).aspx