These features used to be referred to as Intellimirror. Administrators can use Folder Redirection, Offline Files, and Roaming User Profiles to centralize storage for user data and settings and to provide users with the ability to access their data while offline or in the event of a network or server outage.
Some specific applications include:. The following table describes some of the major changes in Folder Redirection, Offline Files, and Roaming User Profiles that are available in this release. Starting with Windows 8 and Windows Server , administrators can configure the experience for users of Offline Files to always work offline, even when they are connected through a high-speed network connection.
Windows updates files in the Offline Files cache by synchronizing hourly in the background, by default. Prior to Windows 8, Windows Server , users would transition between the Online and Offline modes, depending on network availability and conditions, even when the Slow-Link mode also known as the Slow Connection mode was enabled and set to a 1 millisecond latency threshold. With Always Offline mode, computers never transition to Online mode when the Configure slow-link mode Group Policy setting is configured and the Latency threshold parameter is set to 1 millisecond.
Changes are synced in the background every minutes, by default, but synchronization is configurable by using the Configure Background Sync Group Policy setting. With cost-aware synchronization, Windows disables background synchronization when the user is using a metered network connection, such as a 4G mobile network, and the subscriber is near or over their bandwidth limit, or roaming on another provider's network.
What do you use to backup user data? We use folder redirection and UEM because people roam, if your users are never sat at the same desk or device then this is pretty much a must. Even if they don't, FR will help with backup of their data and allows for them to move or use alternative devices if needs be.
The best part is backing documents up. Paired with shadow copies it's a life saver when someone nukes an important file, or their machine dies. We use folder redirection to our company OneDrive because we have mostly laptops in the field and they are getting replaced constantly.
Also, having the data sent directly to OneDrive eliminates the need for individual employee backup software and gives managers the ability to access employee data at any time with minimal effort. How much would you allocate to a FS for Folder Redirection?
I am looking into deploying this and I have a lot of users who don't maintain their PST files users use outlook but are hosting with google. Sometimes these files reach like 40GB and I don't want lag to occur if they have to load these files through the network when they reach that size. The benefit of using OneDrive is that the folders are not actually located on a network drive, they are on the local computer but then sync files to the cloud.
This means that files are always being access locally but being backed up when changes are made. Today we have the technology to lay the last remnants of folder redirection to rest. With the new Microsoft Edge browser and Microsoft OneDrive, we are able to provide a modern way of redirecting the documents, desktop and favorites folders.
I have written a couple of articles about the new Microsoft Edge browser, which you can find here and here. These articles lay the ground work for the Microsoft Edge deployment and configuration and really should be the baseline for any Microsoft Edge deployment.
This configuration provides seamless sign-in to both Edge and OneDrive. Microsoft has a decent article about how to configure hybrid Azure AD join. The Enterprise Sync feature in Microsoft Edge enables synchronization of favorites, passwords, extensions etc. The manual configuration approach is fairly easy. The sync feature can be enabled and enforced via group policy. With less CPU resources available, performance suffers. Interestingly, it appears that SMB 2. Keep this in mind when we show results of some workloads tests and result with SMB 3.
Nimble Storage has a great blog post that shows that across various workloads, the majority of block sizes are below 16K in size. If this is the case for user home drives and user profiles, then there should be a performance gain by setting the hypervisor host or even the physical file server host to high-performance mode. This showed very little overall performance difference between the two protocols but for whatever reason those file copies with SMB 3. Choppier performance with SMB 3.
To test logon times, we configured what we consider to be an enormous user profile and test environment with the following details:. No difference in logon times.
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