Folder Re-direction

[Stuart_C]

Todays windows based challange see's me playing with folder re-direction. I've already got it working for documents and my pictures but I'm currently trying to get it to work with Favourites (on Win7 machines).

 

So I set it up in a test GPO and it seems to redirect, brilliant. Except that I don't seem to have the favourites and links that I populate with Group Policy from a different GPO. Whilst looking round the test GPO I right clicked on the "URL's" link to see what options I had and acidentally hit "reset browser settings" and then thought I'd see what happens as there was nothing else in that GPO apart from my folder re-direction. When I looged in as my test user i noticed that the favourites suddenly appeared, I was nearly happy until I realised that it had only put in the favourites in the "root" and the folders. So any URL's stored in the Maths folder didn't appear.

 

The only thing I could find was to do with the security on the folder and share but both the user and SYSTEM have full control to where they need to and it's still odd!

[Michael]

If it helps (for reference) here's how I setup Folder Redirection in a 2008 R2 / 7 network

 

According to this link, if the permissons on the root of the home folder are not Full Control, Favourite deployment will not work.

 

I cannot verify this at the moment, but I would of thought this would make sense, as the policy is User and not Computer.