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Home Directories or Redirecting MY DOCS?

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by legj1

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I am unsure of which way to go here. I am an NT guy who was used to Home Directories and actually liked them. However, I will have an all Windows 2000 network and am unsure of redirecting MY DOCS. My one BIG argument is this: The default savelocation is MY DOCS. By adding a HOME Directory, I can instruct all users to save ONLY critical/business files to their Home Directory (not that they will listen all the time, but every little bit helps). Basically, I could save Disk space this way. I do not want to backup everything in MY DOCS. My stereotypical experience says that 50% of it is indeed CRAPOLA.

What is everyone else doing and why? Advantages and disadvantages? Any other ideas? Also, are most people synchronizing theMY DOCS to an OFFLINE folder after redirection? Thank you all!

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by etolentino

I agree with your opinion. That is my biggest issue with redirection of My Documents. There is too much personal info that users put in My Documents to use redirection. We have been using Home Directories and have resisted from using redirection. If you do plan to use, make sure that you use Disk Quotas so that users are atleast conscious about what they put on the network.

by gigelul

Hi,
We use HOME DIRECTORIES but the bigest problem is to maintain some free space on server.
Advantages are that the users can access their docs from any workstation and also this is an easy way to do backups and recover of the damaged\deleted files (with additional software-undelete).
Other reason can be if one workstation crashed and you must recover docs.

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