Synchronize takes place even though there is no group policy set

[Robert]

Hi,

I'm a bit baffled as to why this is happening.

I've been playing around with roaming profiles and folder redirection
on test accounts.
I have figured out the roaming profiles on a test network and all
seems to be going fine.

On the live network, I created an OU "test" which had a group policy
created for
folder redirection.
The folder redirection was working fine and I deleted the policy last
week (had the option set to leave the folders where they are)
However, as of this morning (nearly a week later), information is
still being redirected to the 'redirected folders' on the server
Why?

Finally, when I log off the Synchronize window appears briefly while
files are being syncronized.
Even when I had the folder redirection policy set, I disabled the
syncronize files.
I checked the default group policy for the network and there are no
folder redirection set and the entries for synchronization are all set
to disabled. So why is the machine now trying to sync files when the
default policy (no override) is set not to synchronize files?

Thanks.
Rob

 

[Guest]

This is confusing subject but I will do my best to explain. When you set a folder redirection policy this setting is written into the users ntuser.dat file. Say for instance you set redirection and just deleted the policy, most would expect the redirection to stop, but there is nothing to tell the profile to change its existing behavior.
What you would need to do to change the redirection behavior is to recreate the policy with redirection enabled. Set whatever settings you want to apply when the policy is removed. All the effected users will then need to logon/off to get these settings. At this point you should be able to remove the policy and see the expected behavior.