Chapter 9: Intellimirror, Part 1: Redirected Folders, Offline Files, Synchronization Manager, and Disk Quotas

Overview

You get Active Directory, you get Group Policy. That's the good news. The better news is how you can put your knowledge of Group Policy to use to keep your users happy. Here's the idea: easily create a consistent environment for your users no matter where they roam.

In the previous chapter, you used Roaming Profiles to kick off your journey to a consistent environment. Now, let's explore IntelliMirror. In this chapter, I'll give you an overview of what IntelliMirror is and is not, and show you how to implement a slew of its features: Redirected Folders, Offline Folders, Synchronization Manager, and Disk Quotas.

In the next chapter, I'll wrap up IntelliMirror with a discussion of software deployment via Group Policy. Finally, in Chapter 11, you'll see how the "circle of life" for a computer, so to speak, comes together with Shadow Copies and Remote Installation Services.