Information Technology Reference
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FIGURE 6-9
The Open dialog box
Folder redirection
You can use Group Policy to redirect the folders of user profiles. To modify the user profile
folders, follow these steps:
1.
In the GPMC, right-click the GPO in which you want to configure folder redirection. It
can be an existing GPO linked to the site, domain, or OU containing the users you want
to target; or it can be a new GPO you create for folder redirection.
2.
Select Edit to open the Group Policy Management Editor.
3.
Expand the User Configuration node and navigate to User Configuration/Policies/
Windows Settings/Folder Redirection.
Right-click the folder you want to redirect and select Properties from the menu.
4.
5.
On the Target tab, choose Basic to redirect the folder of every user for whom the GPO
applies in the same way. Select Advanced to create multiple redirection rules depend-
ing on security group membership. The choices for Target Folder Location are these:
■
Create A Folder For Each User Under The Root Path
Each user's profile folder is
in a user-specific path below a common root folder (for example, Documents would
be \\server\root\%USERNAME%\Documents).
■
Redirect Everyone's Folder To The Same Location
All the profile folders are
located beneath the same root path.
