From the course: Windows Server 2016: Implementing Group Policy

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Folder Redirection

Folder Redirection

From the course: Windows Server 2016: Implementing Group Policy

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Folder Redirection

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- [Instructor] When you work in an environment where users are not necessarily sitting at the same computer all the time, the way we get their interface to follow them around from machine to machine, is through the use of something called "roaming user profiles". Now these are user profiles that contain the interface and they're stored out on a server, and then when the user logs in, it downloads that interface to the machine they logged into. Well, roaming user profiles bring along a lot of challenges. Mainly has to do with bandwidth issues, how much network bandwidth is being used when you're downloading and uploading the profiles, and then along with that comes the time that it takes for a user to log in and log off as part of that process. To solve that problem, we now, with group policy, have something called "folder redirection", which is very similar, but much more efficient than roaming user profiles. To look at folder redirection, let's jump into our domain controller, DC 1…

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