EventID 104: Folder Redirection

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David Whitt

Greeting,

Getting into Group Policy and how it works and have run into a problem.
Setup up a policy to redirect the My documents folder for a user.
Everything appeared to go OK on his PC. However, when He logs in at another
PC the policy cannot be applied. In the event log on that PC, the
application log contains an EventID 104: Failed to perform redirection of
folder My Documents. The system registry could not be updated. The
following error occurred: Access is denied.

Any help would be appreciated. A search of the MS Knowledge Base did not
yield any results.

TIA,
Dave
 
This error could only be originated from a shell API that sets new
redirection location in the registry. Check event log for any problems with
user profile. If user profile failed to load there could be some issues with
using temporary user profile.

If there are no issues with user profile, then verify permissions on the
registry keys:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell
Folders
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User
Shell Folders

You can do it using regedit on XP and above. On Windows 2000 you will have
to use regedt32. The registry keys above should have read/write permissions
for current user.
 
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