marsdenprimary Posted November 29, 2012 Posted November 29, 2012 Does anyone know what's happening here? For some reason a few of the user folders - essentially where the users are having their home share redirected to - are automatically renaming themselves to 'My Documents' whereas some of the others stay as the users logon name i.e. swilson This happened before when our server was 2003 but i assumed it was an issue with windows 7 when trying to view them remotely on our server but now we have 2008 R2 it's started happening again. Hmmm...
Gossy Posted November 29, 2012 Posted November 29, 2012 Yes, we have this too. You can get around it by denying permission to the desktop.ini folder in each of them for your domain admins group. I've been meaning to throw together a quick PS script to do this, but have yet to do so!
FN-GM Posted November 29, 2012 Posted November 29, 2012 Have a search on here nots of threads about it. Yes, we have this too. You can get around it by denying permission to the desktop.ini folder in each of them for your domain admins group. I've been meaning to throw together a quick PS script to do this, but have yet to do so! I wouldn't do that. It will slow down your login times. I did it here and when i removed the restriction logon times improved by 30 seconds. 1
Netman Posted November 29, 2012 Posted November 29, 2012 See here When you redirect the Documents folder on a Windows Vista-based or Windows 7-based computer to a network share, the folder name unexpectedly changes back to Documents and Prevent Redirected Folders from being renamed "My Documents" - Spiceworks
MicrosoftTechy Posted November 29, 2012 Posted November 29, 2012 put the users documents folder inside another folder for the user so instead of \\server\users$\username ( which you then see as My Documents ) do this \\server\users$\username\documents this way it will rename documents inside the username folder? that way you still see all your users folders by their name and you can just drill into documents.
TotalGeek Posted November 29, 2012 Posted November 29, 2012 (edited) This will solve your problems and will not slow down your logins.... Just add it to Logoff scripts... PupilLogOff.zip Quite simply deletes the desktop.ini file when they logoff... Who needs this silly file anyway! Edited November 29, 2012 by TotalGeek 1
Davit2005 Posted November 29, 2012 Posted November 29, 2012 Windows seems to like doing this, it does it to a Redirected Start Menu as well. A big total PITA to be honest, C'MON Microsoft sort it out. I too have got around it by just ruuning a script to delete the desktop.ini file
plexer Posted November 29, 2012 Posted November 29, 2012 I'm currently migrating all my users to a folder structure that uses a subfolder for my douments. Ben
kevvo2000 Posted November 29, 2012 Posted November 29, 2012 We had the same problem, I blogged a solution here...... http://www.kevin-burke.co.uk/windows-server-technologies/home-folder-shows-documents-folder/ Hope this helps. Does anyone know what's happening here? For some reason a few of the user folders - essentially where the users are having their home share redirected to - are automatically renaming themselves to 'My Documents' whereas some of the others stay as the users logon name i.e. swilson [ATTACH=CONFIG]16124[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]16125[/ATTACH] This happened before when our server was 2003 but i assumed it was an issue with windows 7 when trying to view them remotely on our server but now we have 2008 R2 it's started happening again. Hmmm...
FN-GM Posted November 30, 2012 Posted November 30, 2012 We had the same problem, I blogged a solution here...... Home Folder Shows As "Documents" Instead of Folder Name Hope this helps. I would ignore @kevvo2000 post, all that will do is make your login times slower. Its not a fix just a workaround.
CommodoreS Posted November 30, 2012 Posted November 30, 2012 Its been discussed before here. See here: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-server-2008/100566-desktop-ini-my-documents.html#post871754 for the solution I used which I am happy with. I expect FN-GM will reply to this now with some negative comment saying it will still happen if people are logged on, or don't log off properly but from experience I have found out most people do log off properly and go in these areas when people are not logged on, so not a major issue for me. I will let you make your own mind up!
DMcCoy Posted November 30, 2012 Posted November 30, 2012 Its been discussed before here. See here: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-server-2008/100566-desktop-ini-my-documents.html#post871754 for the solution I used which I am happy with. I expect FN-GM will reply to this now with some negative comment saying it will still happen if people are logged on, or don't log off properly but from experience I have found out most people do log off properly and go in these areas when people are not logged on, so not a major issue for me. I will let you make your own mind up! But it WILL delay logon when there is no desktop.ini and you are redirecting the folder. This does not happen on subsequent logons when the file exists. Windows looks for the file and creates it if it is missing. What you really should be doing is redirecting the following as subfolders of the home drive with Vista/7/8. Contacts Desktop Documents Downloads Favorites Links Music Pictures Saved Games Searches Videos Documents can be moved easily enough with a script and the rest get created on first redirection.
paulellam Posted November 30, 2012 Posted November 30, 2012 File screening old pal, will mail ya direct Jay!! Paul
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