user profile exclude folder from redirection

[mikemcsharry]

I have a problem that I'm sure other people have seen / struggled with / beaten?

 

We have roaming profiles and one user has Google Drive which makes a folde in her home directory called Google Drive

 

In group policies I have fone into

user config -> admin templates -> system -> user profiles ->exclude directories in roaming profiles

That setting now shows

AppData;Downloads;SendTo;Templates;Google Drive;

 

It seems to be making no difference to Google Drive - it insists on synching.

What I did is to delete the Google Drive folder at the server (in her profile.v2 folder) and tried to log her off and back on again. when watching the profile.v2 folder I see the Google Drive folder re-create.

I feel I'm missing something blindingly obvious but have no idea what it is

[mikemcsharry]

Using the engineers maxim ("if you cant get the right answer, change the question" - I discovered a way to change the location of the Google Drive files on the user PC, so pushed that lot away from the \users folder so no longer being picked up between PC and server. It's in the 'backup and synch by Google' preferences - note that you actually need to be connected to your google account to see the preferences. The logic for "which order do I do this lot in" took a bit of figuring out.

[Meldrew]

The GPO you mentioned is to exclude directories from users roaming profiles (ie their settings - what you get when you go start > run %appdata%) being uploaded to the server, but if google drive is sync'ing to the users home directory, the GPO won't affect the home directory.

 

Well done for finding a solution though.

 

HTH,

 

Meldrew.