Redirect user profile to another drive

To change the location, perform the following steps: Open C: \ Users, double-click your user profile folder, and then right-click any of the default subfolders there and click Properties. On the Location tab, click Move, and then select the new location for that folder.

1. How do I redirect a user profile to another drive GPO?
2. How does folder redirection help manage user profiles?
3. Is it safe to move users folder to another drive?
4. Is Folder Redirection a good idea?
5. What is the difference between folder redirection and drive mapping?
6. What replaced roaming profiles?
7. What is safe to move from C to D drive?
8. Does Windows 10 support roaming profiles?
9. Should you redirect AppData?
10. Why do we need folder redirection?
11. How do I point a folder to another location?
12. How do I move a folder redirection to another server?
13. How do I stop one user from redirecting folders?

How do I redirect a user profile to another drive GPO?

Go to Computer Configuration, Policies, Administrative Templates: Policy, System, User Profiles, click on it. Locate the setting called “Set roaming profile path for all users logging into this computer.” Double-click this setting. Configure User Profile Redirection through User's Properties.

How does folder redirection help manage user profiles?

Folder Redirection and Offline Files are used together to redirect the path of local folders (such as the Documents folder) to a network location, while caching the contents locally for increased speed and availability. Roaming User Profiles is used to redirect a user profile to a network location.

Is it safe to move users folder to another drive?

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For most Windows 10 devices, this is a perfectly acceptable configuration. In some circumstances, however, it makes sense to move one or more of these subfolders to a new location.

Is Folder Redirection a good idea?

Folder redirection remains a popular method of user data and profile management because it can improve the user experience by achieving two things: Faster logons - redirecting AppData out of the profile reduces the amount of data required to be copied locally at user logon.

What is the difference between folder redirection and drive mapping?

Folder Redirection and Mapped Network Drives

The difference is that the mapped network drive has a drive letter while the folder redirection can be found as a folder on your local drive. From a UCS and Windows perspective, the two are the same, only presented differently to the user.

What replaced roaming profiles?

FSLogix: Alternative to roaming profiles, user profile disks, and offline files. Since Microsoft acquired FSLogix, most companies now have an alternative for managing user profiles that is available at no additional licensing cost.

What is safe to move from C to D drive?

You can move all the data under your " Users " folder to free some space on your C: drive. but other files like windows files and program files should remain on your C: drive to avoid conflicts.

Does Windows 10 support roaming profiles?

Roaming user profiles in Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, and later versions are incompatible with roaming user profiles in earlier versions of Windows.

Should you redirect AppData?

I typically recommend we redirect AppData. IF we see application performance issues, we can use a solution like Citrix Profile Management to allow certain folders to be copied to the local system. This way, we can get the best of both worlds: fast logon and application performance.

Why do we need folder redirection?

It is often used in an office network environment, to ensure that users do not store data locally, when a network device is the preferred storage location. Folder Redirection allows saving data regardless of storage location and separates user data from profile data decreasing the time required to log on.

How do I point a folder to another location?

For folder redirections to another location on the same computer, you will need to use a junction link. Fortunately, the syntax couldn't be easier. Just append the /J parameter, and the source and target locations.

How do I move a folder redirection to another server?

All you have to do is remove the applied folder redirection policy and configure it to copy the files back to the local machine when removed. Then change the folder redirection policy to point to the new location. Then Group Policy processing will move all the files for you after two logins.

How do I stop one user from redirecting folders?

Edit the group policy, drill down to User Configuration > Windows Settings > Folder Redirection and right click - properties on each folder you want to reset. Set the setting to “Basic – Redirect everyone's folder to the same location” and set the target folder location to “Redirect to the local userprofile location”.