User folders renaming themselves to 'My Documents'?!

[marsdenprimary]

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]

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]

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.

[Netman]

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]

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]

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

[Davit2005]

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]

I'm currently migrating all my users to a folder structure that uses a subfolder for my douments.

 

Ben

[kevvo2000]

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

 

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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]

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]

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]

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]

File screening old pal, will mail ya direct Jay!! Paul