Chapter 10: IntelliMirror, Part 2: Software Deployment via Group Policy

Overview

Two chapters ago, I discussed and implemented the first big feature of IntelliMirrorRoaming Profiles. Once Roaming Profiles are enabled, the user can roam from machine to machine, com fortable that their working environment will follow wherever they go.

In the last chapter, I discussed and implemented more IntelliMirror features. First, we tackled Redirected Folders, which took Roaming Profiles one step further and anchored the user's My Documents folder to a share on a server. We then used the Group Policy settings on Offline Folders and the Synchronization Manager to ensure that certain files are always available in the cache if our connection to the server goes offline or if the server itself goes offline.

We're well on our way to getting the full point of IntelliMirror. That is, we want our users to roam freely across our entire environment and take all their stuff with them. But we're missing a fundamental piece of the equation: how can we guarantee that a specific application is ready and waiting for them on that machine? What good is having your user data follow you if an application needed to access the data isn't available? That's what we're going to handle in this chapter.



Group Policy, Profiles, and IntelliMirror for Windows 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000
Group Policy, Profiles, and IntelliMirror for Windows2003, WindowsXP, and Windows 2000 (Mark Minasi Windows Administrator Library)
ISBN: 0782144470
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 110

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