How to apply windows 2012 r2 supported gpo on windows 2008 r2

Hi All,
am currently applying "Redirect folders on primary computers only" polciy that allow you to control your folder redirection to one primary computer account
this policy can be only applied on windows 8 & windows server 2012.
is there any way to apply this policy on windows 7 & windows server 2008 R2
this link describes the configuration applied
http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2012/03/30/configuring-primary-computers-for-folder-redirection-and-roaming-profiles-in-windows-server-8-beta.aspx
thanks

no
Yes!
For user profiles: No.
For folder redirection: Yes.
It is straight forward by using GPP "Registry" and item level targeting with an LDAP query for the msds-primarycomputer attribute of the user account which has to contain the computername, then modify shell folders and user shell folders accordingly
and don't forget to populate the csc cache, too, if "do not make redirected folders available offline" is not enabled (another bunch of reg values).
If you don't believe it works: I verified this for the "samples" chapter (chapter 10) of my book - I prepared a sample on "how to implement language independent Folder redirection for downlevel operating systems", especially Windows XP.
You have to create the folders through GPP "Folders" - otherwise it will not work. And in my sample, I used the HomeDirectory attribute instead of the msds-primarycomputer for my ILT, but it works the same way:
One side effect: It is NOT possible to redirect to a new server (or back to local) without manually copying the previous content.
Martin
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Surely it's basic functionality for a networked computer to access files and folders on a network file server. It's what networks were invented for at the end of the day.
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Has this networking issue been resolved in Windows 8, 8.1 and 10?
As I am unable to apply a hotfix to 1000's of PC's that are not mine, is there an API call or something where I can get the windows client to stop lying and get me the current state of a folder on the server?
Will Turning off ClientSideCaching fix the issue? HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MrxSmb\Parameters\
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