Most will have the problem with users, despite being told a thousand and one times NOT to save to their desktop, doing so with the old addage from the Techie "Well if your hard drive goes you've lost all items saved there!"
Well today was one of those days where a user had their entire career strewn all over their desktop and something had to be done. In our environment, we have split file servers taking care of half the establishment each, and for continuity issues I wanted to maintain this when deciding to redirect the users desktop. The problem that this posed however was how in a GPO, (without writing a seperate one for each file server and then organising OU's to represent which file server the user was on), did I get the split but to a single UNC path?
From the resultant Google search this article (http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Implementing-DFS-Namespaces.html) came to my notice and followed the instructions therein. Using DFS I can now set up two seperate shares to host the desktops on the relevant servers but use a single UNC path in the GPO and let DFS take care of where the folder actually resides.
On further investigation into DFS there is also a command line utility dfscmd.exe which I may be able to utilise in automating the process of setting up redirected desktops.
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