[Samba] Advice on Folder Redirection for users that work remotely

[Marco Gaiarin]

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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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