I redirected My Docs to a network share so that saving word and xls file is transparent to the user. I am afriad however, this scheme will cause huge performance hits accross the WAN with 1000 concurrent users all delivering data a few KB at a time. My alternatives are writing a script that does an xcopy of files to the network share and leave it at the discretion of the user to execute it to perform a copy to the network or to enable offline folders; however, this last options requires training for a thousand users that have never used offline folders and i find to be non-intuitive. Should I just look into suring up the redirected folder scheme by using a server cluster to manage the possible performance issues (which doesn’t really deal with WAN traffic issue but offers load balancing and fault tolerance)or look at the options of offsetting these types of backup by leaving it to the user or a scheduler type of operation basically copying local files to the network share?
