Desktop Folder Redirection slow access

Ok, I've scoured the network for weeks now trying to resolve this.
Using Windows 7 fully patched, and file servers are 2012 R2
We have folder redirection in place for Documents and Desktop.
The folders are redirected to one of their mapped drives. When accessing the mapped drive, the drive hangs whilst the green progress bar occurs when trying to display the desktop folder. Once accessed, this can be ok for further accesses but
then may recur again later. It is only the desktop folder. Documents is fine. I've tried customising the folder for item type, removed the icon cache, indexed the server, recreated local profiles, moved information off and deleted the folder
on server to allow to recreate etc etc. The issues as I say is intermittent but extremely frustrating.
The group policies originally redirected to a mapped drive when the home directory was set up in AD. However, we've moved away from that, and now the group policies use unc for the redirected folders. All permissions on the server are set up
correctly according to the MS kbs. Some people don't appear to have the issue.
The desktop in favorites in Windows Explorer appears to respond fine even when the mapped drive doesn't. Occasionally the mapped drive is fine, and in this case the Desktop in Favorites isn't.
I've checked the registry, all values in Shell Folders and User Shell Folders are set up correctly.
I've reached the end of what could be wrong, and have no idea what is causing this issue. Any help greatly appreciated.
Regards
Ian

Hi lan cope,
Please take a try to uncheck the "Automatically detect settings"
under
Internet Options -> Connections -> LAN Settings -> Automatic Configurations.
Check if this could help here.
Besides, disable TCP autotuning with the following command and check again:
netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled
Reference: (Description of the Receive Window Auto-Tuning feature for HTTP traffic on Windows Vista-based computers )
Best regards
Michael Shao
TechNet Community Support

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Folder Redirection 502 Access Denied but redirecting to wrong place

Hi,
I have come across a very unusual problem. Folder redirection was implemented a few months ago where a number of folders were redirected with the following settings:
Redirect everyones folder to the same location
Create a folder for each user under the root path
\\server\homefolders
It has worked flawlessly but in recent weeks when we create new users, some of them experience this problem. Folder redirection fails consistently for that user with 502 Access denied. That isn't the unusual bit. This is the unusual bit
- The message is:
Failed to apply policy and redirect folder "Documents" to "\\fileserver\homefolders\joe.bloggs\Documents".
Redirection options=0x1001.
The following error occurred: "Failed to build the list of regular subdirectories under "\\fileserver\homefolders\Jane.Doe\Documents".".
Error details: "Access is denied.
Yes for some reason it knows where it should be redirecting to, but then attempts to redirect to someone elses home folder location. I've substituted the server name and user names for security but the name equivalent to Jane.Doe is consistent in every
error.
This only occurs on our RDS 2012 R2 farm, which has 3 session hosts and doesn't happen on any other system. We use roaming profiles. I have logged the user off and deleted the local and network profiles but get the same result. I've
rebuilt the GPO that handles folder redirection, but again, same result. I've checked and double checked Folder Redirection settings and nothing points to a this specific Jane.Doe user.
Anyone come across this before?

Hi,
I have come across a very unusual problem. Folder redirection was implemented a few months ago where a number of folders were redirected with the following settings:
Redirect everyones folder to the same location
Create a folder for each user under the root path
\\server\homefolders
It has worked flawlessly but in recent weeks when we create new users, some of them experience this problem. Folder redirection fails consistently for that user with 502 Access denied. That isn't the unusual bit. This is the unusual bit
- The message is:
Failed to apply policy and redirect folder "Documents" to "\\fileserver\homefolders\joe.bloggs\Documents".
Redirection options=0x1001.
The following error occurred: "Failed to build the list of regular subdirectories under "\\fileserver\homefolders\Jane.Doe\Documents".".
Error details: "Access is denied.
Yes for some reason it knows where it should be redirecting to, but then attempts to redirect to someone elses home folder location. I've substituted the server name and user names for security but the name equivalent to Jane.Doe is consistent in every
error.
This only occurs on our RDS 2012 R2 farm, which has 3 session hosts and doesn't happen on any other system. We use roaming profiles. I have logged the user off and deleted the local and network profiles but get the same result. I've
rebuilt the GPO that handles folder redirection, but again, same result. I've checked and double checked Folder Redirection settings and nothing points to a this specific Jane.Doe user.
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Microsoft-Windows-Folder Redirection Error 502. CSC database locked by another user

Dear all,
We are finalizing our Windows 7 migration where we migrated 500+ clients. In our enterprise concept we implemented RUP (Roaming User Profiles) and Redirected Folders for all
users. The Redirected Folders have been by enabled by a single GPO which redirects all folders from
AppData to
Searches \\servername.domain.name\documents$\%username%.
Problem:
The RUP and Redirected folders solution works fine until a new user wants to logon. This new user has been migrated to RUP and Redirected on another system and
he just wants to work on another workplace or gets a temporary pc. What happens is that redirected folders do not work. The user gets a message that the folder is not reachable and desktop is empty.
Troubleshooting:
Soon I found out that something was being locked. If we used a user account which had working Redirect Folders than this
worked for that user. An event of 10 was logged in OfflineFiles area of EventViewer to reconnect the path which was configured in the GPO.
This is example screenshot. It says "Error on Open Folder. \\server.domain.name\documents$\%username%\Desktop refers to a location that is unavailable. It could be on a hard disk
on this computer, or a on a network. Check to make sure that the disk is properly inserted, or that you are connected to the Internet or your network, and then try again. If it still cannot be located, the information might have been moved to a different location."
These symptoms happen randomly and not on all workstations. The pain here is when it happens on a portable computer. For desktop we disabled the "Disable Offline Files' in "Manage
Offline Files" control panel and then reboot. After the reboot the folders are directed
and it works without these errors... On portable computer we can't use this work around as they need to work offline.
If I connect to the share without the FQDN like \\servername\documents$\%username%\Desktop than this works fine and user can access all folders. When I try the FQDN path which is
configured in the GPO to redirect user to like \\servername.domain.name\documents$\%username%\Desktop than it fails with this message. I personally think because the C:\Windows\CSC database is locked by the previous user who has been logged on this system.
An example of the event generated in the Applications Event viewer part (I removed some username and server path):
Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Folder Redirection
Date:          1-2-2011 17:40:11
Event ID:      502
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:
User:          domain\ivan
Computer:      computer.domain.name
Description:
Failed to apply policy and redirect folder "Videos" to "\\servername.domain.name\documents$\ivan\Documents\My Videos".
Redirection options=0x1001.
The following error occurred: "Can not create folder "\\\servername.domain.name\documents$\ivan\Documents\My Videos"".
Error details: "Access is denied.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Folder Redirection" Guid="{7D7B0C39-93F6-4100-BD96-4DDA859652C5}" />
    <EventID>502</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2011-02-01T16:40:11.486983400Z" />
    <EventRecordID>2754</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation ActivityID="{3211E6FB-2801-456D-BE6E-66AAE150A4DC}" />
    <Execution ProcessID="968" ThreadID="5856" />
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>computer.domain.name</Computer>
    <Security UserID="S-1-5-21-3705223304-2632712944-1292073641-26755" />
</System>
<EventData Name="EVENT_FDEPLOY_FailedToApplyPolicy">
    <Data Name="FromFolder">Videos</Data>
    <Data Name="ToFolder">\\servername.domain.name\documents$\ivan\Documents\My Videos</Data>
    <Data Name="Options">0x1001</Data>
    <Data Name="Error">Can not create folder "\\servername.domain.name\documents$\ivan\Documents\My Videos"</Data>
    <Data Name="ErrorDetails">Access is denied.
</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
Something like this I see in the Application Eventviewer:
Environment:
Windows 7 Enterprise client with patches until 1-Nov-2010
Windows Server 2008 R2 for the Documents$ share
Windows Server 2003 R2 as the domain controller
I have tried all different option even to rebuild the CSC database but this also was not helping. I hope we are not dealing with a bug.
Any help is much appreciated.
Best regards, Ivan Versluis http://www.networknet.nl

Ivan and SteveDIG - Thanks for taking the time to post detailed information about what you have found. I have found the same things over the past few months and have been working with Microsoft to resolve this. Like Ivan, I have been told by
MS that this is a design problem in Windows 7, but they did admit it is a bug and did not charge me for the case. That was the good news. The bad news was that the problem is so 'deep' in Windows 7 that it will not be fixed until Windows 8 and
the CSC engineering team in Redmond has rejected several requests to fix this issue in Windows 7 from several customers. I personally feel we should have hauled our TAM in over this, but that wasn't my call so we haven't attempted to get an attitude
change from MS.
<RANT> I find this completely outrageous. Windows is supposed to be a multi-user operating system suitable for deployment to mobile workforces spread around the world and often using slow VPN links. Offline folders, folder redirection,
slow link detection, etc. are all great on paper and as I did the design work for the W7 solution I've just built I sold these advantages heavily. I now have serious egg on my face and am not happy. Like others here I missed this in testing as
multiple users are a fringe for us, but still important, I unfortunately didn't think to specifically test for multiple users, though I tested the features thoroughly and was happy with the results when used on single user machines.</RANT>
As identified above, this issue manifests when more than one user uses a machine and their Offline folders (all redirected folders are configured this way by default) are in an offline state when the first user logs off. The second user cannot access
this 'offline' share so folder redirection fails. We get burnt as we have latency=0 configured for slow link detection with Offline folders so users always work offline. This is partly because of WAN optimisers in the network that lie to Windows
so the online/offline transition doesn't work on slow links (not MS's fault), and partly because it made sense for other reasons.
The workaround Microsoft and I came up with for our environment was to use individual file shares for each user. We had been using a common file share with each user folder under that file share. Changing to an individual share for each users
means the share is not locked by the previous user.
Examples
This would cause a problem if John then Emma logged on to the same machine. Folder redirection would fail for Emma:
\\FileServer1\Users$\john
\\FileServer1\Users$\emma
So would this if DFS was used
\\my.domain\users\john           (points to \\FileServer1\Users$\John)
\\my.domain\users\emma          (points to \\FileServer1\Users$\Emma)
This would fix the problem:
\\FileServer1\John$
\\FileServer1\Emma$
Unfortunately we then figured we could move these shares behind DFS like so:
\\my.domain\homes\john             (points to \\FileServer1\John$)
\\my.domain\homes\emma         (points to \\FileServer1\emma$)
This was wrong. The problem returned. I assume the share that is being locked is now the DFS root and not the user share.
The operations team here is very reluctant to go with direct access to the file servers and not use DFS as that will create issues for them in the future when they need to make file server changes. I sympathise with them but can't see an alternative
at the moment as we are deploying W7 and can't stop. If I'd picked this up earlier a third party product might have been the solution (MS actually suggested this when I opened my case).
I hope the information about individual shares above is helpful to someone. Otherwise I don't really have more to add but I needed the rant :-)
<RANT>BTW. Has anyone tested changing a user’s home directory path once it is cached? Try it. Test a scenario where you move the user from one file server to another. You will not enjoy the results. I'll say no more
than this as it is off topic, but it shows the lack of investment in the CSC feature in Windows. Very disappointing</RANT>

Windows 8 - Folder Redirection policy missing from GP Results.

Hi guys! This has been giving me a hard time the last day or so. I've got some Win8 machines in our 2003 domain. I've got some GPO's applying with WMI filtering for win8 machines. Mostly these are ok, but i'm having a huge problem with Desktop Folder
Redirection.
After a fresh build and first login, everything works fine. Drive mappings are all there and the Desktop is redirected to to users home drive on the file server. This is being done with Advanced settings using group membership and set to "Create a folder
for each user under the root path" \\dfs1\users. This location is correct and permissions are fine of course as everything works for a while.
After a little while or some unknown event, this redirection stops working.
check these two screengrabs. These are different users on different machines. The machines are identical, are in the same OU and have the same image. The users are different but have the same group memberships and are in the same OU.
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This machine is not working. Folder Redirection is processed, but the Policy is missing. Running a gpresult /v on this machine yields:
Folder Redirection
N/A
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tbh and usually when i post questions i figure it out shortly afterwards anyway huhu. Any help is appreciated!
h

well I though this issue was gone when I switched to a new Task Sequence in SCCM every machine that was built with that was working fine with Folder Redirection happening as it's meant to be. That was for about a week, now it's back to not working.
here's a snippet of the gpsvc.log file pertaining to FD.
GPSVC(43c.11f4) 08:59:47:231 ProcessGPOs(User): Processing extension Folder Redirection
GPSVC(43c.11f4) 08:59:47:231 ReadStatus: Read Extension's Previous status successfully.
GPSVC(43c.11f4) 08:59:47:231 CompareGPOLists: The lists are the same.
GPSVC(43c.11f4) 08:59:47:231 CompareGPOLists: The lists are the same.
GPSVC(43c.11f4) 08:59:47:231 GPLockPolicySection: Sid = S-1-5-21-2272506071-1675830810-3538462175-3230, dwTimeout = 30000, dwFlags = 0x0
GPSVC(43c.11f4) 08:59:47:231 CGPApplicationService::LockPolicySection.
GPSVC(43c.11f4) 08:59:47:231 WaitForServiceInitialization: Beginning WaitForSingleObject.
GPSVC(43c.11f4) 08:59:47:231 WaitForServiceInitialization: Completed WaitForSingleObject.
GPSVC(43c.11f4) 08:59:47:231 CPolicyCriticalSectionCollection: LockPolicySection called for user <S-1-5-21-2272506071-1675830810-3538462175-3230>
GPSVC(43c.11f4) 08:59:47:231 SID = S-1-5-21-2272506071-1675830810-3538462175-3230
GPSVC(43c.11f4) 08:59:47:231 bMachine = 0
GPSVC(43c.11f4) 08:59:47:231 Global Sync Lock Called
GPSVC(43c.11f4) 08:59:47:231 Writer Lock got immediately.
GPSVC(43c.11f4) 08:59:47:231 Global Lock taken successfully
GPSVC(43c.11f4) 08:59:47:231 ProcessGPOList: Entering for extension Folder Redirection
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GPSVC(43c.11f4) 08:59:47:231 ProcessGPOList: No changes. CSE will not be passed in the IwbemServices intf ptr
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GPSVC(43c.5d0) 08:59:47:231 CGPApplicationService::UserLogonEvent::-- (Status: 997)
GPSVC(43c.11f4) 08:59:47:231 ProcessGPOList: Extension Folder Redirection returned 0x0.
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GPSVC(43c.11f4) 08:59:47:231 CGPApplicationService::UnLockPolicySection.
GPSVC(43c.11f4) 08:59:47:231 WaitForServiceInitialization: Beginning WaitForSingleObject.
GPSVC(43c.11f4) 08:59:47:231 WaitForServiceInitialization: Completed WaitForSingleObject.
GPSVC(43c.5d0) 08:59:47:231 Setting GPsession state = 1
GPSVC(43c.5d0) 08:59:47:231 User SID = <S-1-5-21-2272506071-1675830810-3538462175-3230>
GPSVC(43c.11f4) 08:59:47:231 CPolicyCriticalSectionCollection: UnLocked successfully
GPSVC(43c.5d0) 08:59:47:231 CGroupPolicySession::QueueItemForPolicyApplication::++ (bTriggered: 0, bConsole: 1)
GPSVC(43c.5d0) 08:59:47:231 PolicyApplicationState is True.
GPSVC(43c.5d0) 08:59:47:231 AsyncThreadsProcessing is False.

Folder Redirection not applying.

We have folder redirection functional for specific sets of users, and it works normally, so it can be done! Don't lose hope. :)
Did you check your event logs? Did you do a gpresult to see if the policy is applying?

I am having a problem setting up folder redirection on Windows Server 2012 R2. I have applied the folder redirection policy in the default GPO, nothing. I created a new GPO applying it to "authenticated users", still not working. I tried to index it and everything. I even tried to set the drive perms, share perms, and folder permissions to everyone and it's still not working. I got the desktop folder redirection policy set and it works, but I cannot do the same for documents. Please help!
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Hi,
I don't think we can set multiple users to a same redirected folder.
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through Group Policy.
If you have any feedback on our support, please send to [email protected]
Yes you can and I confirm this works. The key is to uncheck
"grant user exclusive rights"
here's an example of what I did.
Created OU A and B
OU A - Added user A1 and A2
OU B - Added user B1 and B2
Created Security Groups A and B
Share folders \\PDC1\A\Desktop and \\PDC1\A\Documents grant permission to security group A (repeat for group B)
Use basic folder redirect and the option to redirect everyone to the same shared drives as above. In the setting tab, uncheck "Grant user exclusive rights"
And to answer your question, we do you mapped folders. Each user have their own mapped drives but no one is using it. They don't even know what mapped drives are in most
cases. They tend to like to save everything to their desktops or their whatever the default saved location is, in this case it's "Documents". There are plenty other reasons why I want this.
Danny

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P6: 4db5dff8
P7: 210
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P10:
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Report Id: ffc2eb12-802f-11e0-b0ba-002713aa74b8
Report Status: 6
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Please Help!!!!

> The Group Policy Client Side Extension Folder Redirection was unable to
> apply one or more settings because the changes must be processed before
> system startup or user logon. The system will wait for Group Policy
> processing to finish completely before the next startup or logon for
> this user, and this may result in slow startup and boot performance.
This is expected. Review the application event log for FR related entries.
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Best folder redirection options for a large environment

I am just curious to hear what the community recomends for large environments for user's files. Meaning, is desktop sync better than creating home directories and using offline sync? I am just trying to find the best way to have users able to access their
files on or off the network. As well as the best way of managing users files. Making it easy for them to save files and be able to access them at home. Maybe linking their desktop and My Documents folder to a share? I am open for all suggestions. Now to give
you an idea, this is a county public school enviroment. So you have to have something that will work with Staff, Teachers, Administration, and students. Also realize this is a huge environment with multiple schools. I look forward to your suggestions.
Also, all clients are Windows 7 and servers would be 2008 R2 for this scenario.

What I would do is use Folder Redirection in a GPO, using the advanced properties. Assign Teachers, Students and Staff different security groups in AD, and then in your GPO, assign the group members of "Teacher Security Group" a folder redirection of 'Create
a new folder for each user' at \\SVR-DATA\Users\Teachers. Then use a cache to keep the files offline. You will know if this works as you will see 'CSC-CACHE' under the Home drive when offline. Look below...
Ed

Cannot get Folder Redirect to work on RDS Server

OK here is what I am trying to do..
Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services
I want to redirect all user profile folders (Desktop, Music, etc...) to a remote share
\\server\share to which the share is actually only giving Read-Only rights. Except for Documents to which they can save there on the RDS Server itself.
I had a server drives hidden (A:, B:, C:, D:) hidden so they could only save to network shares and their local computers. However, the people in the UK complain that saving to their local computers is just painfully slow (the RDS Server is in
the US).
So, Now I'm only blocking the Server C: drive. I have a SUBST going on pointing B: to the user profile folders (needed for a different application anyway). I need to have the "B:\Documents" open for these guys to save to however, I
want to block saving to any of the other profile folders.
What I tried to do was to set a GPO up like below:
Computer\Admin Templates\RDS\Session Host\Profiles
Set path for RDS Roaming User Profile Enabled (pointing to
\\Server\Share)
User\Windows Settings\Folder Redirection\Desktop
Basic (Redirect everyone's folder to the same location)
Path \\Server\Share
Grant Exclusive rights to Desktop - Disabled
Move contents to the new location - Disabled
Apply to older systems - Disabled
First, is what I am trying to do even workable?
Next why can't I get it working.

Hi,
>>I want to redirect all user profile folders (Desktop, Music, etc...) to a remote share
\\server\share to which the share is actually only giving Read-Only rights.
To redirect user’s folders to a network share, the minimum NTFS permissions of the root folder required by the users is
List Folder/Read Data, Create Folders/Append Data - This Folder Only.
Regarding security recommendations for Folder Redirection, the following article can be referred to for more information.
Security Recommendations for Folder Redirection
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc736916(v=ws.10).aspx
>>Move contents to the new location - Disabled
For disabling this setting, the existing data in the folders will not automatically follow the folders when they are redirected to the network location.
>>I need to have the "B:\Documents" open for these guys to save to however, I want to block saving to any of the other profile folders.
After redirecting the folders, if we really want to do this, as an administrator, we can take ownership of the user folders to where user’s profile folders are redirected,
and then edit the corresponding NTFS permissions.
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Best regards,
Frank Shen

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