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Hi. Like many people, we have always provided our users with a home folder via Active Directory, and we map the F: drive to their home folder. At some point Microsoft created the library "Documents" and we noticed users were saving their files to "Documents" instead of their F: drive (I think apps will default to "Documents"). So we implemented folder redirection so it doesnt matter if they save their files to the F: drive or the "Documents" folder. It's the same exact location. This works great EXCEPT in the case of laptops. When the laptop is on the company network, everything is fine. But if they disconnect from the network and go somewhere where they dont have any internet access and they are 100% offline, Windows and Office both have trouble with the redirection. I'm assuming Windows and Office both use that Documents folder for their own purposes and because the redirection is broken, the apps misbehave. So we had to turn off redirection of the Documents folder for laptop users, thus pointing Documents BACK to the C: drive. The users are still saving their files to Documents folder, not realizing that it is no longer pointing to the home folder. We warn them about this, but they keep forgetting.
Question: is there a way to work with this? Can redirection to a network location work even if the computer is offline? How would you fix this? Or is there a method by which Windows can use a local location for Documents until the network connection is restored? and then sync things back up? Thanks in advance!
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Question: is there a way to work with this? Can redirection to a network location work even if the computer is offline? How would you fix this? Or is there a method by which Windows can use a local location for Documents until the network connection is restored? and then sync things back up? Thanks in advance!
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