W10 Start Menu - Documents Redirection

[LankeyFish]

Hi All,

 

Hopefully a simple one for somebody out there.

 

So on our system students cannot access C:, and in our start menu there is a 'Documents' icon that only goes to C:\User\Username\Documents. So when it gets clicked they are told it is blocked, only recently has this started to create some confusment as the student tells the teacher and the teacher has no idea what is happening when the student suddenly has an error popup while locating their files. Is it possible to either remove this feature or redirect it so it goes to a specified location?

[DaveTheTech]

I had thought this was mapped to their documents folder?

So if that has been redirected to \\myserver\students\billy\Documents it would open that folder?

[LankeyFish]

It seems to be since we updated to 1909, the direction seems to have defaulted back to C - documents rather than Server - Documents. Its only just now come up so we never noticed it was broken.

[BOOT]

KnownFolders have had an overhaul, there's at least 3 IDs for documents now. If they're not set, they'll default to the user profile.

[LankeyFish]

Do you happen to know where those ID's are so i can change/redirect them elsewhere?

[BOOT]

The values are under in the users registry:

Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

 

The key names are guids

Documents:

{FDD39AD0-238F-46AF-ADB4-6C85480369C7}

LocalDocuments:

{F42EE2D3-909F-4907-8871-4C22FC0BF756}

 

Set the type to REG_EXPAND_SZ and the value to the path you want.

[LankeyFish]

Thanks Boot, do you know if we can do this through a group policy to set it back as we like or does it have to set permanently by the registry? Edited November 12, 2020 by LankeyFish

[BOOT]

I have it set via group policy; the changes stay even if the policy is removed, they don't change back.