Win7 Desktop Redirection not working but Start Menu does? Any ideas?

[ronnoco]

Hi all,

 

I'm making a brand new Win7 student policy. Nothing is being inherited. Managing GP from a Win 7 PC. I can get the Start Menu to redirect but not the Desktop? The setting is identical to our normal Win XP policy. Windows is up to date and I have applied some GP settings as recommended in other posts. The event ID is 1085 but can't find a huge amount specifically for this problem.

 

Attached is a copy of all the GP settings I have configured so far (not many)

 

If anyone has any ideas, suggestions or advise to remedy this problem, it would be much appreciated.

 

Thanks very much in advance.

 

Gary

Student Policy.docx

[krisd32]

how did you get the start menu to redirect? thats what i'm having a major issue with at the moment.

[6Foot2]

how did you get the start menu to redirect? thats what i'm having a major issue with at the moment.

 

Same for me. Desktop is OK but Start Menu fails [empty]

[ronnoco]

If you look at the attachment, that shows all the policies I am using. The Start Menu redirection has always worked and ours is a huge one (that needs tidying!)

 

It's just the Desktop for me that doesn't work.

 

Are you using a DFS share for your folder redirection?....i'm not.

[januttall]

this might be a daft question but you have checked that the share and folder permisions are correct throught the directorys from the share so a user can actauly get to and read data from the location of your redirection

[krisd32]

yes all permissions are correct, it still works for xp machines.

[ronnoco]

Same here, Desktop Redirection works fine for XP, just not Win7.

[krisd32]

Its startmenu redirection thats not working though not using desktop redirection. not at the school at the moment but i'll check through gp to check against your setup. i know force classic start menu is enabled will this cause an issue with win 7?

[ronnoco]

I've got ours working....thanks janutall, it was a mistake in that I had ticked the 'Move the contents of the Desktop to the new location' box so it was trying to write to a folder where the pupils don't have permission. Both redirecting fine now.

 

Kris, is yours a newly created policy without anything being inherited?

 

Are you managing from a Win 7 PC or do you have a 2008 R2 DC?

 

Have you tried (just as a test) logging on a pupil and letting it create a new V2 profile for them, just to eliminate it's not associated with a profile issue? - it shouldn't be but might be worth ruling out?

 

Let me know how you get on when comparing your settings to mine.

[krisd32]

v2 profile is there and working correctly i think??? just came into this primary last week and there was a load of new pcs with win 7 on them. never really used it before they only have a 2008 dc (not r2) probably doing something really stupid but can't figure it out. i've tried creating a new policy tried with and without profiles to no avail. just scratching my head at the moment. before i left last week i did install the remote server admin tools on a win 7 pc but not sure what to do with regarding managing group policy for the network.

[januttall]

do all of your other policys work as it may be a problem with win 7 pulling group policy off the server you could try a "gpupdate /force /boot" if not it may be a problem with OU's or posibly a problem by which it needs to be inforced

[krisd32]

yeah as far as i can see all the other policies are working correctly but just no start menu.

[januttall]

it might be worth trying to enforce that one ploicy and have a look through any others that may be conflicting with it.

[ronnoco]

Hi Kris,

 

If you're not running 2008R2, I wonder if the Win7 required ADMX files have ever been copied to a central store? If not, this may well be why you are having issues.

 

I got the advise underneath from user Synastra and it worked perfectly for me.

 

Browse your network and find \\DomainContoller\sysvol\your.domain.name\policies

you should see GUID foldernames, in the policies folder, is there a folder called PolicyDefinitions? if no then Copy the PolicyDefinitions folder from a Win7 client computer with all the files and folder within, to do this, locate the PolicyDefinitions folder on the Win7 machine, C:\Windows as an example. Now copy the folder to the \\DomainContoller\sysvol\your.domain.name\policies folder.

 

Use the remote server tools for Win7 to manage the new ADMX templates from the Administration tools.

The new tools look at the new folder you created for all the policies.

 

Hope it helps!

[ronnoco]

Dave/Kris,

 

Not sure if this well help but for us, if you have the following policy enabled, the Start Menu is empty.

 

User Config\Admin Templates\Start Menu & Taskbar

 

"Remove User's folders from the Start Menu"

[6Foot2]

@ronnoco: Thanks. I will give this a go.