SBS2011 Std redirected folders mess

Hi all
I have found a bit of a mess on a new customer site. Redirected folders in the sbs2011 std environment were not setup using the SBS console and have been implemented by use of a manually created GPO. Trouble is everyone now
to have full access to each others folders on the server as their folders are inheriting permissions from the top level folder - not good.
The sbs "redirected folders" directory does exist (on the system drive) with all the directories for each user with the correct permissions yet it is not being used yet folder redirection has not been enabled in the console
I need to correct this so the redirected folders are on the data drive, with the correct permissions, and no loss of data.
Is my best option to turn off folder redirection forcing users back to having local data then re enabling it the correct way? This will be a proper pain as there is 45 users ~40Gig of data involved.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Mark

Hi Mark,
Based on your description, I understand that you manually configure folder redirection via group policy (no
using Redirect folders for user accounts to the server) on SBS 2011 Standard. However, there seems that have some permission issues. If anything I misunderstand, please don’t hesitate to let me know.
Please refer to following article and check if help you to correct permission configurations.
Folder Redirection
If you want to remove Folder Redirection policy, there will be two options:
Leave the folder in the new location when policy is removed or Redirect the folder back to the local userprofile location when policy is removed. It will depend on your requirements.
If any update, please feel free to let me know.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Justin Gu

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\\my.domain\homes\emma         (points to \\FileServer1\emma$)
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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 :-)
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than this as it is off topic, but it shows the lack of investment in the CSC feature in Windows. Very disappointing</RANT>

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\\oldserver\users\%USERNAME% to
\\newserver\users\%USERNAME%. The policy is configured to NOT copy user files from the existing folder to the new redirected folder. Everything was going well until I tested the policy change. After the folder redirection policy is updated
and applied, the user cannot access the private Documents folder. For example, user Chester Tester logs on as ctester. I open Windows Explorer and click the Documents shortcut. I see one subfolder, which is subfolder of Public Documents.
So I can look at Public Documents but when I click on the Documents folder (Under the Documents library link) I get an access denied error. Now for the kicker, if I open another Windows Explorer window and edit the address bar to
\\newserver\users\ctester, I can navigate the Documents folder tree and see my thousands of documents. What the ....?
I'm hoping this is something really simple to fix!
TIA

HI Vivian,
Thank you for your reply. Yes, the path in Group Policy Folder Redirection Root Path was updated to
\\NEWSERVER\users. I had planned to point this to the distributed file system, so the first used was actually
\\domain\dfs\users. To simplify things I have backed off to copying to just a normal share
\\newserver\users.
We are using BASIC folder redirection and we create a folder for each user under the root path.
We did not want the policy to move content, as we were seeing users requiring 15-20 minute logon times (or higher) after the policy is changed.
Grant the User exclusive right to Documents - Disabled
Move the contents of Documents to the new location - Disabled
Related folder settings
Video - Follow Documents
Music - Follow Documents
Pictures - Follow Documents
Now when I change the folder redirection from old server to new server I now have TWO My Documents folders in the user's redirection folder on the server. The redirected Documents points to an empty folder set. The copied folders with all user
data are there, but folder redirection refuses to recognize the original folder.
I am looking at the full view of the folder, nothing hidden, so I'm wondering how a folder can have two subfolders with the exact same name. For now, I just want the redirection to move from the old server to the new server properly. I deleted
the new My Documents folder, rebooted the user's workstation and tried again. The behavior repeats itself, i.e., a new My Documents folder is always created when the redirection policy is changed from the old server to the new server. The environment
has about 1500 users with approximately 1.3TB of data in the redirected Documents folders. OUCH!

Windows 7 desktop (redirected folder) icons layout

Please help me to solve this issue.
Our computers louse desktop icon layout after returning from sleep.
Important facts about our setup:
Windows 7 professional SP1 64 bit
Redirected folders
We louse desktop icon layout every time after computer louses it's connection to server where our desktop folder is redirected.
Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Configure folder redirection (Desktop) to some server.
2. Move user icons (icons that are not form local computer installation) somewhere on desktop.
3. Put computer to sleep.
4. Leave computer in sleep for 10 minutes (so that he louses connection to server where folder is redirected).
5. Wake up computer.
Every time we do this icons are moved to the left.
It doesn't help if we turn of auto arrange icons and align icons to grid.
Thank you in advance on your reply.
Best regards.

Hi,
I made a test, no matter whether the PC has connection to the server or not, the layout of the desktop icons should remains as it should be. it will not automatically arrange the icons. Sounds weird in your situation. According to your description, if this
issue only happens when the computer loses connection during sleep, then to avoid this, as a workaround, we can check the power management option of the network adapter, untick "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power".
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2740020
If the network connection remains during sleep, and the issue remains after PC wakes up, then we can eliminate the server connection issue, in that case, please post back, and we can take a further analysis of the issue.
Yolanda Zhu
TechNet Community Support

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