We currently use GPO to redirect My Documents for clients. This is based on membership of 1 of several security groups which denote what file server local to them will be used to store the files on i.e. if they are a member of "GG Home Drive London" it will redirect Documents to \\DFS\Home\London\%USER%\Documents . When they move office we change the membership to "GG Home Drive Edinburgh" and all docs get moved to\\DFS\Home\Edinburgh\%USER%\Documents the next time they log in as expected using the "Move the contents of documents to the new location"
We hit a problem when we start thinking about Quotas. Our default is 500MB. These get manually bumped up regularly on an individual basis as folk store more stuff. The problem then hits if we then need to move them. We cannot pre-stage the move as the GPO will 'Move' not copy the existing files, wiping out anything that is already there. If the old redirected folder has 1Gb of data and it tries to move it to a new folder which has the default quota of 500MB, it gets so far then fails which more often than not results in a loss of most if not all data as no roll back tries to take place or any other such recovery.
The only workaround we have is to catch the next logon of the user and hope to set their new folders quota to match their old setting in time to avoid it hitting the limits and failing. With a new office opened and 200 users looking to have quick access to their files without going across the WAN, doing this 200 times is a bit unrealistic.
Can anyone suggest a possible solution to this. We like the GPO/Security group/Quota setup, it gives us a manual control on such things that we'd lose if we based the folder redirection on Sites/DHCP and unlimited storage. But we would like to avoid trawling through backups every time the inevitable happens and some poor soul phones in a panic when their bloomin cat pictures have dissapeared from their My Docs.
Many thanks in advance.
Craig