I work for a company that is using Group Policy to redirect "My Documents" to
the local hard drive and not to the server. Our goal is to have all user's
My Documents stored on their machines. Is there a way to move My Documents
using Group Policy, or will it have to be done manually at each machine?

Bri wrote:
> I work for a company that is using Group Policy to redirect "My Documents" to
> the local hard drive and not to the server. Our goal is to have all user's
> My Documents stored on their machines. Is there a way to move My Documents
> using Group Policy, or will it have to be done manually at each machine?

Do you mean they redirected My docs to the server and not to the hard
drive? Because if that thats not the case then the my docs folder is
already on their local machines. We redirect all of our users My docs
to the server except a couple of laptops. We do this so that we can
backup all of the users documents without backing up each machine. Keep
in mind if you move My Docs to the local drives and want to have backups
you will need to keep all of the machines on so the backup software can
access the drives or make each users responsible for backing up their
PC. Sure... that's going to happen :-)

gls858

"gls858" wrote:

> Bri wrote:
> > I work for a company that is using Group Policy to redirect "My Documents" to
> > the local hard drive and not to the server. Our goal is to have all user's
> > My Documents stored on their machines. Is there a way to move My Documents
> > using Group Policy, or will it have to be done manually at each machine?
>
> Do you mean they redirected My docs to the server and not to the hard
> drive? Because if that thats not the case then the my docs folder is
> already on their local machines. We redirect all of our users My docs
> to the server except a couple of laptops. We do this so that we can
> backup all of the users documents without backing up each machine. Keep
> in mind if you move My Docs to the local drives and want to have backups
> you will need to keep all of the machines on so the backup software can
> access the drives or make each users responsible for backing up their
> PC. Sure... that's going to happen :-)
>
> gls858

No, they want to redirect the My Documents to the machines' local hard
drives. I think I have how to do that part down. What I need to know is
after we do that, am I going to have to go around to each machine and move
the actual folder off the server and onto their local hard drive?
>

Bri wrote:
>
> "gls858" wrote:
>
>> Bri wrote:
>>> I work for a company that is using Group Policy to redirect "My Documents" to
>>> the local hard drive and not to the server. Our goal is to have all user's
>>> My Documents stored on their machines. Is there a way to move My Documents
>>> using Group Policy, or will it have to be done manually at each machine?
>> Do you mean they redirected My docs to the server and not to the hard
>> drive? Because if that thats not the case then the my docs folder is
>> already on their local machines. We redirect all of our users My docs
>> to the server except a couple of laptops. We do this so that we can
>> backup all of the users documents without backing up each machine. Keep
>> in mind if you move My Docs to the local drives and want to have backups
>> you will need to keep all of the machines on so the backup software can
>> access the drives or make each users responsible for backing up their
>> PC. Sure... that's going to happen :-)
>>
>> gls858
>
> No, they want to redirect the My Documents to the machines' local hard
> drives. I think I have how to do that part down. What I need to know is
> after we do that, am I going to have to go around to each machine and move
> the actual folder off the server and onto their local hard drive?

I guess I don't understand. Why would they have to use GP to redirect My
docs to the place it exists by default. Somehow I think I've misunderstood.

As to the question of using GP someone else more familiar with it will
have to answer that.

gls858

Hi Bri or anybody else that might be able to help,

I'm also trying to move my "documents" folder from the server to the local hard drive on my laptop. I do not want it to sync or backup to the server at all. Bri mentions being able to accomplish this by manually setting the individual machine up this way. Can anybody tell me how to do this? I tried right clicking the "documents" folder and changing the "location" field on the location tab (which currently points at the server) but it is greyed out and I can't change it. See attached screenshot "capture.jpg".

Thanks in advance for any help,
Jimi

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