Folder Redirection change not taking effect for some users

[iSteve]

Hello,

 

We have recently moved our home folders to a new server. We had GP set up to redirect users' home folders. We have changed the GPO to reflect the location of the home folders on the new server. However, this does not seem to work for some users. There is one GPO for our staff, so this setting should be uniform for our staff users. If we run Group Policy Results from the GP Management snap in, I can see that for 'User A' the redirection path is \\NEW SERVER\User A, which works fine. However running it for User B, the result is \\OLD SERVER\User B. The GP Result report is being run on the same computer.

 

Does anyone know why this group policy setting is not applying correctly for all users?

[halbaradkenafin]

Hello,

 

We have recently moved our home folders to a new server. We had GP set up to redirect users' home folders. We have changed the GPO to reflect the location of the home folders on the new server. However, this does not seem to work for some users. There is one GPO for our staff, so this setting should be uniform for our staff users. If we run Group Policy Results from the GP Management snap in, I can see that for 'User A' the redirection path is \\NEW SERVER\User A, which works fine. However running it for User B, the result is \\OLD SERVER\User B. The GP Result report is being run on the same computer.

 

Does anyone know why this group policy setting is not applying correctly for all users?

 

Has User B logged in to that PC since the policy update? I've found it can sometimes not update the policy for users even if they are in the same OU as another user who has logged in.

[Killer_Bot]

I suspect its as halbaradkenafin says. Especially as it sounds like you're using Group Policy Results which gives you the results of group policy that has already happened. For example there would be no results that feature your new policy for User B if they haven't logged on since you made the change (it would still give you the results of when they last logged in).

 

You can always do Group Policy Modelling from AD GPMC as that will tell you what "should" happen rather than what "did" happen (the latter requiring the user to logon first to give you some results to see).

 

If they have logged on and it's still not happening then please feel free to ignore the above

[iSteve]

Ok, so using GP Modelling on a user where they are still referencing the old server, it shows that the correct policy / redirection settings should be applied. I guess this means there is something cached on the local machine which needs obliterating. Is there anything other than gpupdate /force which can do this? We have also enabled the policy which forces GP processing on the client regardless of if anything has changed.

[halbaradkenafin]

Ok, so using GP Modelling on a user where they are still referencing the old server, it shows that the correct policy / redirection settings should be applied. I guess this means there is something cached on the local machine which needs obliterating. Is there anything other than gpupdate /force which can do this? We have also enabled the policy which forces GP processing on the client regardless of if anything has changed.

 

Delete or rename the local GroupPolicy folder which is in C:\Windows\System32 and is usually hidden. Rerun gpupdate /force after renaming/deleting the folder and it should force a full refresh of the policies.

[iSteve]

Thanks haldaradkenafin - this seems to do the trick after a couple of updates and restarts.