Windows Server - Stopping Folder Redirection

Asked By tkutil

02-Feb-10 11:47 AM

I had been testing Folder Redirection with a GP on my own user and now I want
to stop the redirection, but cannot. I have deleted the GP I was using, but
My Documents and Deskop still disappear when I disconnect from the network.
How do I get my account back to normal?

02-Feb-10 12:08 PM

You cannot just delete it. You have to reverse it first so it puts the data
back onto the client side, then disable the GPO. I would not simply just
delete it.

Please read my blog on Folder Redirection. I hope you find it useful.

Folder Redirection
http://msmvps.com/blogs/acefekay/archive/2009/09/08/folder-redirection.aspx


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02-Feb-10 12:46 PM

Howdie!

tkutil schrieb:

I agree with Ace here. Just deleting the policy will not help you much.
Your goal is to redirect the folder to its origin place or somewhere else.

Cheers,
Florian
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02-Feb-10 06:09 PM

To add to the other guys comments,...when creating the GPO there is a radio
button to set that tells it to revert back to the Default Location when the
policy is no longer in effect.  If you do not enable that you will leave
yourself "hanging" when you get rid of the policy.

I also *unlink* the policies instead of deleting them,...only delete them
when you know absolutely for sure that it is safe to do so and that you
will not need them again later.

Lastly,...do not touch the 2 Default Policies,...leave them be,...always
create a new policy for what you want to do.  I also like to create new
policies based on a loose "catagorization" (or classes) of settings.  Then
you can link or unlink differnt classes of settings to and from machines
without effecting all the GPO settings on the Domain.

(note to Ace,...got any ideas to my question titled "ADMT Question? I
have not gotten any response on it)


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04-Feb-10 09:03 AM

Thank you for the information. I was not aware of the setting to set the
location back to the local user profile.

04-Feb-10 10:32 AM

You are welcome.

Ace