Disable Folder Redirection

[Kenneth Bryant]

How do you disable Folder Redirection. We are running Win2k A.D. Some time
ago I put in the policy for folder redirection. We decided we did not want
to use it at that time. I tried to disable the policy, but there are users
who's desktop still tries to synchronize when they log off. Any ideas how
to disable this feature?

Thanks in advance,

Kenneth

 

[Jeremy Church]

I usually turn off Offline Files on Desktop within the LAN. This can be
done through a policy. To be quite honest, I detest offline files on the
Local LAN. I see no purpose for it and it just gets in the way.

Folder redirection seems to be a bit finicky. It's not cut and dry like one
would hope. It's probably better that way seeing that actual company data
is many times being redirected and just moving it here to there to there is
probably not the best practice.

One way to redirect it is to change the redirection policy to
%USERPROFILE%\. This is the default location for most Shell folders.

Once the policy is removed, I believe you can simply drag the folder from
the "redirected" location back to their user profile.

I think these are the two places in the registry that refer to the folder
location. I believe the second is the one that counts though.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell
Folders
and
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User
Shell Folders

Hope this helps.