Redirected Folders issue

[Tony R]

Hi all,

I am having an issue with a redirected folders group policy that I added to
our SBS 2000 server. This policy is in addition to the Default Domain Group
Policy. I did not alter that(DDGP). I was having everyone's My Documents
folder redirected to a network share on the server. The powers that be
decided that they did not want this for all employees at this time and
therefore I disabled the policy, however, it appears that everyone's folders
are still being synchronized to the server when they log out. Am I missing
something here? Do I need to delete the policy as opposed to disabling it?
Why has the disabling of the policy not stopped the synchronization of the
folders?

TR

 

[Guest]

To redirect it back to the local profile folder : redirect the My Documents folder back to %USERPROFILE%\My Documents instead of the network path. This is the default path of a workstation
See registry : HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

 

[Guest]

You needn't remove GPO

You can force to move it back. Reenable folder redirection and type %userprofile%\My Documents in the path.
After all the clients update their policies - disable folder redirection.

 

[Tony R]

I checked the 'redirect folder back to original location when policy is
removed' when I created the policy. Does this feature not work?

Thanks
TR

You needn't remove GPO.

You can force to move it back. Reenable folder redirection and type

%userprofile%\My Documents in the path.

 

[Guest]

According to its name the option have to work but really it doesn't. I don't know why - just made some tests and couldn't return My Documents back.

 

[Tony R]

Would this apply to Desktop and AppData also?

TR

According to its name the option have to work but really it doesn't. I

don't know why - just made some tests and couldn't return My Documents back.

 

[Guest]

I don't know, I tested My Documents only.