Folder Redirection & unexpected result

[Cliff]

I have 17 users logging into a TS box. What I wanted to do was to redirect
their Application Data, My Docs, Desktop, etc to the D: drive as that
partition is MUCH larger than the 12 gig C: drive. After I made the change
in Group Policy and logged in as a couple of users, I found 15 or so folders
on the desktop with everything from the old My Documents to a Windoes
Folder. I was wondering what I did wrong or how I might get rid of these
"additional folders" without logging in as each user and deleting them?

This is a previous post that wasn't answered and I have some new
information. These "new folders" that started showing up are coming back
EACH morning when the user logs on. Some users have so many folders that
you can't see their desktop! I went in and tiurned off the folder
redirection for all except My Documents, which was working fine.

Thanks for any help...

Cliff

 

[Cliff]

Yes, of course I have one. Serveral actually...seems a lot to go thru
though. Wonder why a simple Folder Redirection is causing so much grief? I
simply redirected ALL user folders to D:\%usernane%

It didn't seem to me that I was asking the server to do all that much work
and now all of a sudden everyone's got 10 to 15 folders being created on
their desktop each time they log in.

It's not that I'm rejecting your recommendation...I'm more looking for the
cause behind the effect...know what I mean?

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My recommendation would be to restore from backup (say Yes, of course I

have one), remove the policy you enabled, create a test user in a test OU
and experiment with that user, not on a production environment.

 

[Guest]

Did the folders exist already on drive D, or perhaps users don't have sufficient permission to create the direcotry structure on D? If not that may be why they got put in such an interesting place

You wouldn't have to restore the whole machine, just the profiles & reverse the GPO setting you changed

Regardless of how simple something seems, anytime you're doing something that will affect many users it's a good habit to get into to do some fairly thorough testing before flipping the switch. Best to CYA

I've said "Doh!" quite a few times myself, but have gotten more & more cautious over the years.

Patrick Rous
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Serve
http://www.workthin.co


----- Cliff wrote: ----

Yes, of course I have one. Serveral actually...seems a lot to go thr
though. Wonder why a simple Folder Redirection is causing so much grief?
simply redirected ALL user folders to D:\%usernane

It didn't seem to me that I was asking the server to do all that much wor
and now all of a sudden everyone's got 10 to 15 folders being created o
their desktop each time they log in

It's not that I'm rejecting your recommendation...I'm more looking for th
cause behind the effect...know what I mean

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My recommendation would be to restore from backup (say Yes, of course

have one), remove the policy you enabled, create a test user in a test O
and experiment with that user, not on a production environment

 

[Cliff]

Well, even turning off ALL the folder redirection didn't fix it. I still
have two users who get these folders created everytime they log in. Of
course, I have 17 users wort of My Docs created in four places so rather
than save space, I've made it four times worse! Geepers creepers...

I've looked all over the place for where else the folder redirection might
be taking place. It's getting worse rather than better. I may have to
delve in deep to sort this mess out.

Thanks for the help though...

As it stand right now, I've turned off the Folder redirection. When I log
in as any of my 17 users, their My Docs is still on D: Weird huh?

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Did the folders exist already on drive D, or perhaps users don't have

sufficient permission to create the direcotry structure on D? If not that
may be why they got put in such an interesting place.

You wouldn't have to restore the whole machine, just the profiles &

reverse the GPO setting you changed.

Regardless of how simple something seems, anytime you're doing something

that will affect many users it's a good habit to get into to do some fairly
thorough testing before flipping the switch. Best to CYA.