You redirect users' folders to provide a centralized location for key Microsoft Windows XP Professional folders on a server or servers. This centralized location, called a sharepoint, provides users with an access point for storing and finding information, and administrators with an access point for managing information. The Folder Redirection node in the Group Policy Object Editor console enables you to redirect certain special folders to network locations, including file shares in other forests in which two-way forests trusts have been established. Special folders are folders such as My Documents and My Pictures, which are located in C:\Documents and Settings (where C is the name of your system drive).
Windows Server 2003 allows the following special folders to be redirected:
• Application Data
• Desktop
• My Documents
• My Pictures
• Start Menu
