Issue with Folder Redirection in W2008R2

Good Day, System description: 1. W2k3 Domain Controller 2. 2 servers W2k8 R2 fully patched as domain members servicing RDS. Let's call them Server1 and Server2 3. Users have roaming profiles AND folder redirection because we use HP thin clients and i don't
want their profiles to be permanent lay on the Server system drives. Both profiles and redirected folders exist in a drive on Server1. 4. Different OU's in Active Directory for Servers and Users. My problem is the following: When a new user does the initial
login, in order to create his profile, on Server1, the profile is created "correctly" but he can't login to Server2 afterward. When he does, redirected folders doesn't apply correctly and the error: "Failed to apply policy and redirect folder
"Start Menu" to "\\Server1\userdata$\fotios\Start Menu". Redirection options=0x9231. The following error occurred: "Failed to build the list of regular subfolders under "\\Server2\userdata$\fotios\Start Menu"". Error
details: "The network name cannot be found." with Event ID 502 appears. Of course this error appear for all redirected folders. If however, they do the initial login on Server2, then everything is correct. Profile is created correctly and the user
can login to both servers without redirection problems. By digging deeper i discovered that for the users with problem (initial at Server1) in the HKUsers\....\User Shell Folders key, the values referring to redirected folders appear as \\%Computername%\...
instead of the configured redirection path. Users without problem (initial at Server2) have the correct pathname value. Both servers have identical setup and policies. Any help would be appreciated. Regards Kostas

This is what I found to resolve the problem and I believe the solution to the problem is fairly simple.
Do these steps from the server:
1.) make sure you have a folder named with the user account name in redirected folder location.
2.) make sure the user has full control of the folder.
3.) make sure that the user, not the administrator, is the owner of the folder.
From the workstation, logged in as the user:
4.) create the sub-folders for redirection such as "Desktop", Favorites, etc. under the user's redirected folder.
5.) Log off/on as the user.
6.) check to see that the files have been moved to the redirected folder and have been removed from user profile.
You should experience a long logon period during this initial sync if there is significant user data. This is a good sign that the data is being moved and redirected folders are working. Don't interrupt the process!
You can of course do some limited automation or copy/paste operations to resolve the problem for multiple users.
I hope this helps.
John
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