Hello everyone. We're currently a Server 2003 and XP shop. We replacing a bunch of XP desktops with new Windows 7 laptops. Currently on the desktops they're using roaming profiles and redirected application data, favorites, etc. We're working on killing the roaming profiles as they are no longer needed, but I'm concerned if we need to kill the redirected folder settings as well, since these users will be using the laptops outside the office without access to the domain and servers that host those redirected folders.
Can anyone offer any advice on how to best handle this? Do I need to kill the folder redirection stuff?
I know there is a group policy that will let the laptops cache domain logon credentials, so they can log on with their domain account when the machine is not on our LAN, so that would solve logon issues with a domain account. But the folder redirection stuff has me puzzled.
If we do keep the folder redirection, are there some policy settings I need to turn on so those files would be available to the laptop user offline (when they aren't on the WAN and can't get to the server)? Then whenever they do get back on the LAN, the changes between the laptop and server copies would then merge/update?