Hi Adam,
Enable my documents folder redirection using group policy. So that files
and folders under my documents folder will get redirected to server share.
Enable offline files on user machines for offline usage.
Even though users has 5gb data in my documents folder it will sync only the
modified files. But depends upon the data, time delay occurs.
Go thru the below article for more information
Folder Redirection
This is a very useful setting that is easy to understand and manage. If an
administrator wants to redirect the My Documents, My Pictures, Application
Data, Desktop, and Start Menu locations from their defaults, this section
allows it to be done. For example, at Leicester University we use roaming
profiles, but we don't want the My Documents folder to roam with the user
because of the large number of folders and files it would contain. In other
words, downloading and uploading My Documents would slow down logon/logoff
considerably. So instead we redirect the user's My Documents folder (and
the My Pictures folder within it) to the network paths when he logs on.
That way, whenever an application, such as Microsoft's Office 2000,
attempts to save a document to the My Documents folder, the folder that the
user sees is the My Documents folder located in his home folder.
This part of the GPO is different from the others in that it doesn't
contain settings as such. Instead, the folders listed should be
right-clicked and the Properties item selected from the drop-down menu that
appears. This brings up the main redirection settings window for that
folder. This window allows you to redirect all users who receive this GPO
to one folder or allow a finer-grained control so that users who are
members of a certain group get Folder A, users who are members of another
group get Folder B, and so on. You can then specify other settings such as
whether the existing folder is to be moved when this GPO takes effect and
whether the folder is moved back when the policy stops taking effect.
WARNING: I find this policy somewhat useful. Its main problem stems from
the fact that you can't use environmental variables in the strings, as the
GPO will take effect before environmental variables are set. So if you have
a set of users who are to have their My Documents redirected to folders
that correspond to their usernames, there is no way of getting the
usernames into the folder path using the %USERNAME% variable in the same
way that there is for profiles.
If you do want to redirect but don't want the hassle of doing it this way,
edit the relevant keys in the following two user registry locations to
point the folders elsewhere. Note that both must be edited for the process
to take effect:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
Logon/Logoff scripts
This is where you can specify the logon and logoff scripts that users will
execute. Whether these are executed synchronously or asynchronously is
specified in the User Configuration Administrative Templates section of the
GPO.
Security Settings IP Security Policies on Active Directory
These settings correspond to those held under Windows Settings in the
computer portion of the GPO. The results pane of Figure 8-5 shows the three
default policies held under this location. Note the two extra icons in the
top right of the MMC; the first allows you to create an IP security policy,
and the second allows you to manage IP filter lists and their actions. Both
are also available by right-clicking in the usual manner.
Security Settings Public Key Policies
These settings correspond to those held under Windows Settings in the
computer portion of the GPO.
Thanks,
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