Hi,
In an environment I have just taken over (Win 7/2K8) I have discovered that they are using Folder Redirection to a network drive which is great, but they appear to also have a custom ADM which is also redirecting their Internet Explorer cookies to this network drive...
I was made aware of this when looking at their network drives (Which are DFS based), and I saw a large amount of DFS warnings due to sharing violations, which when I examined the actual detail of the event logs point directly to these cookies!
I have done a search online and I have seen people ask the question of can it be done and some example ADM files so there clearly is some demand!
But this was just a quick shout out really, does anyone else do this cookie redirection and if so why?
To me personally it seems quite excessive and without it I reckon I can improve their systems on 3 fronts:
- Reduction of DFS server IO (Due to lots of small file writes)
- Reduction of backup window again due to number of small files
- Eliminate a large majority of sharing violations with DFS
What am I missing?