The key to this article is mobsync.exe. There are excellent suggestions.
Combine folder redirection with offline files, however, and you've got a killer feature for laptop users. When my tablet pc is on the network, I've got full access to My Documents. Then I go off the network - and I still have full access to all those files, stored locally (and transparently) under C:\WINDOWS\CSC. I can modify them to my hearts' content, knowing that when I reattach to the network mobsync.exe will automatically detect this and let me synchronize all changes. And since I'm the only one touching those files, and I'm rarely working on more than one computer at once, synchronization conflicts (when it asks you to choose whether to keep one or both versions) are equally rare. Folder redirection and offline files