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You can only make it hard, but never impossible. As long as the user profile remains writable for the user, he will find ways to access the local file system and write to it. The user profile needs to remain writable (at least some parts) for windows to work correctly.
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You can only make it hard, but never impossible. As long as the user profile remains writable for the user, he will find ways to access the local file system and write to it. The user profile needs to remain writable (at least some parts) for windows to work correctly.

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I had a customer years ago (Win Server 2003 I think) that had a log off script that cleared all files with certain extensions (probably MS Office and maybe txt, jpg, etc) out of the user profile (My Documents?) and put them in a server folder that could not be read generally.<br />
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If anyone lost their files, they probably only did it once, and if they lost a lot of work, they *could* ask for it back.<br />
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I can't recall if it worked or not, but I suspect it did.<br />
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This is not a suggestion!<br />
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I had a customer years ago (Win Server 2003 I think) that had a log off script that cleared all files with certain extensions (probably MS Office and maybe txt, jpg, etc) out of the user profile (My Documents?) and put them in a server folder that could not be read generally.

If anyone lost their files, they probably only did it once, and if they lost a lot of work, they *could* ask for it back.

I can't recall if it worked or not, but I suspect it did.

This is not a suggestion!

;-)

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Is there a way to disable saving of documents on the computer via Active Directory?<br />
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We want users to save all documents to the shared drive on file server
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Is there a way to disable saving of documents on the computer via Active Directory?

We want users to save all documents to the shared drive on file server

Disable saving on PC

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