lholland421 Posted February 5, 2015 Posted February 5, 2015 Hi guys, Just been cleaning up our GPO's lately and now our folder redirection has stopped working. I had the redirection set as %HOMESHARE%%HOMEPATH% \My Documents . This doesn't seem to be working now. If i redirect it to any other folder it works. Any ideas?
cheredenine Posted February 5, 2015 Posted February 5, 2015 Just a quick answer, but just use %HOMESHARE%%HOMEPATH% and dispense with the \My Documents as this is redundant I believe.
lholland421 Posted February 5, 2015 Author Posted February 5, 2015 Okay I did this and the user folders started to rename to my documents on the server . I believe this is to do with desktop.ini . Can't find a solution that won't effect logon Times
DMcCoy Posted February 5, 2015 Posted February 5, 2015 %homeshare% is usually \\server\share\folder and %homepath% is usually \ so %homeshare%%homepath%Documents would be the My Documents path on Vista upwards.
lholland421 Posted February 5, 2015 Author Posted February 5, 2015 %homeshare%%homepath%Documents Doesnt seem to work. I am now using just %homeshare%%homepath% but i cannot get desktop.ini from renaming userareas to 'My Documents' Any Ideas?
3s-gtech Posted February 5, 2015 Posted February 5, 2015 Personally, I just ignore it. The desktop.ini files don't actually rename the folders as such, they just apply the LocalizedResourceName property. You can still see the folder names if they are named the same as your users - just select and show the Owner column (if the attribute is set correctly). There are other solutions, such as using FSRM to stop the desktop.ini from being created, but this can cause issues with logon times etc.
DMcCoy Posted February 5, 2015 Posted February 5, 2015 %homeshare%%homepath%Documents Doesnt seem to work. I am now using just %homeshare%%homepath% but i cannot get desktop.ini from renaming userareas to 'My Documents' Any Ideas? If you type "set" from the command line, what does it show for the homeshare and homepath variables? Is the home folder set to a subfolder of a share, on the user in AD?
lholland421 Posted February 6, 2015 Author Posted February 6, 2015 (edited) From a client machine homepath it set to \ and homedrive is set to z: and Homeshare is set to the root of the users user area in the share Our home areas are in a structure like this Users\Yearleaving\Username\ Edited February 6, 2015 by lholland421
lholland421 Posted February 6, 2015 Author Posted February 6, 2015 I have just tried %HOMESHARE%\My Documents and it seems to be working. i am going to keep an eye on it today and let you guys know. Thanks for your help and that SET command is useful ! Cheers
lholland421 Posted February 9, 2015 Author Posted February 9, 2015 So the folder redirection worked for a whole day. And now I get into work today and it's stopped again ! I have not changed a thing. Any ideas .
lholland421 Posted February 9, 2015 Author Posted February 9, 2015 Anyone have any tips about troubleshoot it ?
Jamo Posted February 9, 2015 Posted February 9, 2015 Anyone have any tips about troubleshoot it ? Anything in the event logs at all? There should be a GPO/folder redirection related event category in the more verbose event logs in >2008
lholland421 Posted February 10, 2015 Author Posted February 10, 2015 Thanks for the reply. I ma getting no errors about folder redirection on the client at all. Thanks
3s-gtech Posted February 10, 2015 Posted February 10, 2015 Are you getting general folder redirection issues? These are common on Windows 7 and 8/8.1, and can be fixed with a reg key import (via GPP or a batch file on startup). Save this as a .reg and place centrally on the network. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions\{2112AB0A-C86A-4ffe-A368-0DE96E47012E}] [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions\{2112AB0A-C86A-4ffe-A368-0DE96E47012E}\PropertyBag] [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions\{491E922F-5643-4af4-A7EB-4E7A138D8174}] [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions\{491E922F-5643-4af4-A7EB-4E7A138D8174}\PropertyBag] [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions\{7b0db17d-9cd2-4a93-9733-46cc89022e7c}] [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions\{7b0db17d-9cd2-4a93-9733-46cc89022e7c}\PropertyBag] [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions\{A302545D-DEFF-464b-ABE8-61C8648D939B}] [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions\{A302545D-DEFF-464b-ABE8-61C8648D939B}\PropertyBag] [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions\{A990AE9F-A03B-4e80-94BC-9912D7504104}] [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions\{A990AE9F-A03B-4e80-94BC-9912D7504104}\PropertyBag]
lholland421 Posted February 10, 2015 Author Posted February 10, 2015 I am having issues with folder redirection via GPO. i have set my documents to redirect to %HOMESHARE%\My Documents. This was working for a couple of days and now it has stopped working again. I am getting no folder Redirection errors in Event viewer on the machine itself. Thanks
lholland421 Posted February 10, 2015 Author Posted February 10, 2015 The Desktop and Start menu are redirecting Fine
lholland421 Posted February 10, 2015 Author Posted February 10, 2015 those Reg keys have just removed my documents and pictures from start menu
3s-gtech Posted February 10, 2015 Posted February 10, 2015 Remember that "My Documents" dates to XP - it's now just "Documents" as far as the OS is concerned. All those reg keys do is delete the folder descriptions, which will fix folder redirection if it breaks (this tends to show as errors in the logs). They shouldn't affect Group Policy settings, but don't run them on your own workstation unless you're having these issues. You should be able to restore those options to the Start Menu via the Properties menu.
lholland421 Posted February 10, 2015 Author Posted February 10, 2015 Cheers, I now have the Docuements Redirection pointing to %HOMESHARE%\Documents. still not working with nothing in the event log on the machine. Surely somewhere there will be an error stored? Thanks
3s-gtech Posted February 10, 2015 Posted February 10, 2015 Does it work if you point it back at their home directory via Group Policy (I know this causes them to be renamed as Documents)?
lholland421 Posted February 10, 2015 Author Posted February 10, 2015 yeah that works fine, But then i have the Docuemts rename issue. Any ideas? Thanks for your help
3s-gtech Posted February 10, 2015 Posted February 10, 2015 I have mine some users set to use: %HOMESHARE%%HOMEPATH% This is the 'standard' way of doing it - does that work?
lholland421 Posted February 10, 2015 Author Posted February 10, 2015 Yes that works but renames all the user areas to " My Documents" Cheers
3s-gtech Posted February 10, 2015 Posted February 10, 2015 Ack. Final try: %HOMESHARE%%HOMEPATH%\Documents
lholland421 Posted February 10, 2015 Author Posted February 10, 2015 When i put %HOMESHARE%%HOMEPATH%\Documents into the file explorer bar it cannot find the path as it works out to \\server\users\username\\Documents i have tried: %HOMESHARE%%HOMEPATH%Documents which doesnt work also %HOMESHARE%%HOMEPATH%My Documents also didnt work finally %HOMESHARE%\Documents which didnt work either Thanks
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