Group Policy: Hiding or moving "my documents" folder

Hello all. We have to distrbute the windows explorer as a
ts/citrix-application to notebook users. They use it to copy files
between their notebook and the file server. We use ZFD4 to control the
citrix environment.
We want to get rid of the "my documents" folder in the explorer
application. The settings in the local group policy work fine for the
desktop and start menu, but we didn't get the folder out of explorer.
Second try was to move and rename the folder to a network location (user
dir). Found the adm file from David Brightman to enable this
functionality in lgp, but: How is the syntax for the path? Explorer
reports errors, saying, it could not find the "my documents" folder on
the specified path...
Any ideas´, hints?

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On 7/27/2011 7:56 AM, Alix wrote:
>
> I've installed windows7/32 bit to use the Group policy helper. Now I can
> use this tool.
>
> I want to use the Group policy helper to redirect folders as descripted
> in 'Managing Roaming User Data Deployment Guide'
> (http://technet.microsoft.com/de-de/l...9(WS.10).aspx).
>
> In this documentation a folder redirection management snap.in is used.
> Can I somehow include this in the grouppolicy helper in ZCC11?
>
> I want to redirect the user folders to their homedirectory. We have
> about 500 Students and I can't configure every login so I hope to solve
> the problem using the group policies.
>
> (with zen7 and XP we configure the default local user to move desktop
> and user files to NetWare Home directory.)
>
>
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