Folder Redirection Issues...

[bwestlake]

Hi all,

 

We have recently upgraded our staff and student servers from Server 2008 to Server 2012 R2

 

For each user we used to have their HomeDrives as follows

 

Staff: \\staff\Data\%username%

Students: \\students\data\%intake%\%username%

 

and we have now changed it to be

 

Staff: \\staff\%school%\%username%

Students: \\students\%intake%\%username%

 

After we had done this a couple of days late a couple members of staff whom have been in in the summer started noticing that there work wasn't saved...

Turns out looking on the machine that they had been using, in their local profile there was the Documents, Desktop, Music, Videos, Pictures and Favourites folders... (they never used to be local)

 

Having a look, when they go to save for example on word it is defaultly on the Libraries - Documents

But if i go to their HomeDrive it does look like the folders are redirected

if you go through the Libraries one it does save to the local machine...

 

checked Group Policy and everything is as it was before and should still work

 

Have looked at removing libraries from the pc but they will not disappear.

 

Has anyone got any ideas? We have ran out of anymor help please!

 

Many Thanks

[3s-gtech]

You have home drives redirected (I guess by Group Policy and have a home area set in the user profile). Check that the Group Policy which sets the redirection is absolutely correct, that you have each sub-context redirected too (e.g. Pictures, Videos) and that these GPs are applying. I had some issues using that setting, so I redirected using the 'create a folder' setting instead. Edited August 21, 2015 by 3s-gtech

[bwestlake]

have double checked music, pictures and videos and they are set to "Follow the documents folder" and then Desktop and Favourites are set to "Redirect to the following location : %HomeShare%\Desktop"

[bwestlake]

bump

[robsonma]

Just Check you have, Under GPO>UserConfig>Windows Settings>Folder Redirection (IE Documents) right click, select settings check, Grant,Move, and most importantley leave the folder are ticked.