Cannot turn off folder redirection. 1

[1DMF]

Can anyone advise why after changing the folder redirect policy to 'not configured' as it was causing to many problems, the policy doesn't seem to be propergating.

We all still seem to have folder redirection, even though when I turned it on I especially chose the 'redirect folder back when policy is removed' option?

Any ideas why the policy won't take effect?

Thanks,

1DMF.

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[ShackDaddy]

Why don't you try explicitly disabling it? I haven't found some of the redirection infrastructure consistent, so this does't surprise me.

Dave Shackelford
Shackelford Consulting

 

[1DMF]

OK, i've disabled 'User Configuration' , but is this the only way to disable Folder Redirection, doing this means the other setting I had for 'User' are now also disabled.

surely this can't be right, the only way of turning off one setting is to disable them all?

Any guidance appreciated.

1DMF.

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[1DMF]

NB, I've just logged off the server and my client, logged back on and we STILL have folder redirection.

Is there a time delay on policy propergation?

Or do I have a serioius problem with a server bug?

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[1DMF]

Still not worked, I have the User Configuration disabled and still the folder redirection won't go away.

Now what do I do?

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[1DMF]

I found this info

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888203

I've tried it and it doesn't work either.

I'm also baffled how you set authenticated users to not have 'read' permission for the GPO, if you set them to 'apply group policy' only the 'Authenticated Users' group is removed from the WMI Filtering policy, so then they are not affected by the GPO?

This is a complete and utter nightmare!

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[1DMF]

I gave up with GPO, it just doesn't work!

Only manualy moving them back has lost me my desktop & screwed my start menu

You can do the followng on the local machine.....

If you right click 'MyDocuments', and choose properties. you can click 'Restore Default', which will switch mydocs back to 'Local' , you can also go to 'Control Panel' and choose 'Folder Options', 'Offline Files' tab and siable offline files.

However this doesn't fix Application Data, Desktop, Start Menu.

I've found the registry entries where this is stored by I don't know what to change it to.

I replaced \\servername\foldershare with %userprofile% , but I lost everything doing that.

Turning off offline folder doesn't copy anything back.

Where do I go from here?

And does anyone know the correct path entry for the 'start menu' location? i've removed it currently as %userprofile% is not correct

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[1DMF]

Finally got it sorted, complete nightmare, NEVER turn on folder redirection!

After disabling Group Policy on the server do the following on each client -> yup each damn machine has to be done 1 at a time, thank you MS!!!!

1. Settings->Control Panel->Folder Options->Offline Files

Remove tick and apply, reboot machine.

2. Right click My Documents->Properties->Restore Default , choose 'yes' to copy data back to local machine!

3. edit registry...

The two parts are

HKEY_Current_User/Software/Misrosoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/Shell Folders

HKEY_Current_User/Software/Misrosoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/User Shell Folders

change all shared folder parts back to correct location for current logged on user (shell folders) or %USERPROFILE% (user shell folders) ensure you replace the correct part...

Application Data = %USERPROFILE%\Appication Data
Desktop = %USERPROFILE%\Desktop
Start Menu = %USERPROFILE%\Start Menu

4. log off and back on again (desktop icons will vanish!)

5. open windows explorer , navigate to network places->entrie network->ms network->yourdomain->yourserver->share for redirected folders->yourusername

copy content and paste it into the correct folder on the local C: drive for logged on user...

c:\documents and settings\username\

Say 'yes' to any copy messages, then log off and back on again, check everything is ok, if happy go delete the shared folder originaly used for the users folder redirection.

Note: Users desktop icons will get rearranged, so expect your users to moan!

Hey at least they weren't lost altogether!








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