Re: SBS 2003 redirected profiles & home folders, swapping computer question

Roveer,

If you are using standard redirection policies, that makes the users content
available on the server shared folders regardless of what computer that user
logs in from provided all computers you use for this purpose are configured
to use that policy. That would be the case if you used ConnectComputer to
setup the computers. Therefore, if you build and join the new computer in
the same way, the folder content on the redirected folder share will resume
working as before, you have nothing to do to make that work as it has in the
past.

Do keep in mind that the redirected folder is not the entire user experience
content, there may be additional user configuration details you need to
backup and restore from the old machine to the new machine in order for the
user to have a transparent experience in adopting the new workstations.

- Jeff Middleton SBS-MVP




"Roveer" <> wrote in message
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> I've got an SBS 2003 server with a few connected workstations.
>
> If I remember correctly when I set it up I did redirected profiles and
> home folders to have them housed on the server.
>
> I've got a user who's computer is going to be replaced. Is there
> anything special I need to do? the windows machines are XP SP3. Do I
> need to do one of those deals where I point to a URL?
> "connectcomputer"? Will the users desktop settings be preserved?
> It's not a huge deal but anything I can preserve because I did the
> remote profiles would be a plus. I'm thinking I will have to do
> something special to make this happen.
>
> Help is appreciated.
>
> Roveer