samba - Sep 2024 - Advice on Folder Redirection for users that work remotely

Hi team,

Would someone be able to advise us on how to handle 'Folder Redirection'
for users that work remotely?

We?ve noticed that user profiles often don?t load until users connect to 
the VPN tunnel. How do you handle issues where user profiles fail to 
load before the user authenticates to the domain controller? While 
trying to minimise any input from the end-users.

We are seeking advice on what the key considerations are for configuring 
folder redirection policies in a remote work environment


Kind regards,

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*June Chong*
*Engineer | TechnologyWise*

Basestation
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Tauranga, NZ

*E:* june at tw.co.nz | *P:* +64 (0)7 571 1060 | *W:* technologywise.co.nz 
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> Would someone be able to advise us on how to handle 'Folder
Redirection'
> for users that work remotely?
I'm currently using roaming profiles, with quota, and with a careful
exclusions from profiles by folder redirection and
'HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\ExcludeProfileDirs'.

Clearly we get some troubles, but manageable.

Also: offline file (Client Side Cache, or CSC, in MS lingo) are enabled by
default even on Win11, and get activated automatically for all redirected
folders.

> We?ve noticed that user profiles often don?t load until users connect to 
> the VPN tunnel. How do you handle issues where user profiles fail to 
> load before the user authenticates to the domain controller? While 
> trying to minimise any input from the end-users.
For VPN users (and user wireless) profiles get not synced (because connectivity
goes up after logon), but it is intended; CSC do their work (so redirected
folders are available to users) and if correctly tweaked you can enable or
disable in VPN.

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