Folder Redirection problem when changing target folder location...

[Keith S. Wiedemann]

I have a network environment running Active Directory from a Windows
2000 server that I will call (server), with multiple Windows XP
clients.

We recently went to using Roaming Profiles along with Folder
Redirection. I created two shares on the server, lets call them
"Profile$" and "User". I am using the "Profile$" share for the
roaming profiles, and the "User" share for the redirected folders.

In my naive brilliance, I thought that users should not have
"convenient" browsing access to the Application Data folder along with
their My Documents and Desktop folders, so I put it under the
"Profile$" share instead. Well, this confused the offline folders
usage a bit, so after implementation I changed the location of the
Application Data target from "\\(server)\Users\%username\Application
Data" to "\\(server)\Profile$\%username%\Application Data".

In watching the Application Log entries, one of my users is
consistently getting a ID 1085 Source: Userenv error indicating
failure of the Group Policy client-side extension for Folder
Redirection. It is always proceeded by the following error in the App
Log:
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Event Type: Error
Event Source: Folder Redirection
Event ID: 104
Description:
Failed to perform redirection of folder Application Data. The system
registry could not be updated. The following error occurred:
Access is denied.
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After enabling Folder Redirction debug logging, here is the relevant
section from the fdeploy.log file:
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(time) Redirecting folder Application Data to
\\(server)\Users\%USERNAME%\Application Data.
(time) Previous folder path \\Switch\Profile$\%USERNAME%\Application
Data --\\(server)\Profile$\(user)\Application Data.
(time) New folder path \\Switch\Users\%USERNAME%\Application Data
expanded to \\(server)\Users\(user)\Application Data.
(time) Contents of redirected folder Application Data will be copied
to the new location.
(time) Failed to perform redirection of folder Application Data.
The system registry could not be updated.
The following error occurred:
%%5
_____

This happens on every WindowsXP client for this particular user. I've
checked and double checked the NTFS file permissions and ownership of
the files and folders in both the old path and the new path and they
are what is recommended in the MS KB articles. The fact that the
error is pointing to the Registry concerns me though. When I look in
the registry the Application Data folder is properly set to the new
path. But I keep getting the error!?

Any clues?

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[Tim Springston [MSFT]]

Hi Keith-

So it sounds like this problem (recurring 1085 and 104 events) consistently
heppening for only one user. If that is correct, I would suggest checking
the user's NTUSER.DAT in their profile to verify permissions are correct.

There should be permissions like this (and tese permissions should be
iinherited throughout that hive):
Administrators --> Full Control



System --> Full Control



Affected user's account --> Full Control



Please repost to let us know if that helps or not.


--
Tim Springston
Microsoft Corporation


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