Redirecting the Documents folder to a network share
Users are accustomed to saving documents, pictures, and more in their Documents
folder, because that is what they do at home. When working on an office computer at their workplace, the natural tendency is to save in the local Documents
folder as well. This is often not a desired behavior because backing up everyone's Documents
folders individually would be an administrative nightmare. So, a common resolution to this problem is to provide everyone with mapped network drives and train users to save documents into these mapped drives. This is good in theory, but difficult to execute in practice. As long as users still have the capability to save documents in their local Documents
folder, there is a good chance that they will save at least some things in there without realizing it.
This recipe is a quick Group Policy change that can be made so that the Documents
folders on your domain-joined computers get redirected to a network...