What's the differences between Romain Profile and Folder Redirection

Ahmed Essam 245 Reputation points
2023-03-19T14:21:44.9466667+00:00

Hello,

I'm a little bit confused about the two features, I want to know the differences between them and pros and cons.

Thanks,

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-03-19T14:33:13.0266667+00:00

    Roaming User Profiles is used to redirect a user profile to a network location, whereas Folder Redirection enables users and administrators to redirect the path of a known folder to a new location, manually or by using Group Policy. So, the latter may allow for more granularity.

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/folder-redirection/folder-redirection-rup-overview#technology-description

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  2. Adam J. Marshall 10,356 Reputation points MVP
    2023-03-20T01:07:46.1766667+00:00

    Also, generally, Roaming profiles are rarely used in favour of Redirected Folders. See my guide for my method of how to do it so that it behaves and acts like roaming profiles.

    https://www.ajtek.ca/guides/the-adamj-method-for-folder-redirection-with-offline-files-part-1/

    Another possibility is to use Known Folders Move (KFM) with OneDrive if your users have OneDrive space. This is the preferred method as the OneDrive Sync technology is much better than Offline Files (really old, but still works fine). OneDrive sync is the same technology as WorkFolders which is Microsoft's recommended way over Offline Files (except Offline files works on non-Windows NAS devices and WorkFolders do not).

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