Книга: Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage, Security, & Networking Pocket Consultant

Centrally managing special folders

You can centrally manage special folders used by Windows Server through folder redirection. You do this by redirecting special folders to a central network location instead of using multiple default locations on each computer. For Windows Vista and later releases of Windows, the special folders you can manage are AppData (Roaming), Desktop, Start Menu, Documents, Pictures, Music, Videos, Favorites, Contacts, Downloads, Links, Searches, and Saved Games.

Note that even though current releases of Windows store personal folders in slightly different ways, you manage the folders in the same way within Group Policy.

You have two general options for redirection. You can redirect a special folder to the same network location for all users, or you can designate locations based on user membership in security groups. In either case, you should make sure that the network location you plan to use is available as a network share. See Chapter 4, “Data security and auditing,” for details on sharing data on a network.

By default, users can redirect folders no matter which computer they’re using within the domain. Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 enable you to modify this behavior by specifying from which computers a user can access roaming profiles and redirected folders. You do this by designating certain computers as primary computers, and then configuring domain policy to restrict the downloading of profiles, redirected folders, or both to primary computers. For more information, see Chapter 10, “Managing existing user and group accounts” in Windows Server 2012 R2: Essentials Configuration.

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