Special Folder Redirection like in Citrix

We currently run a number of published applications on a Citrix server farm. On of the client options on Citrix is called "Special Folder Redirection, Use My Documents and Desktop folders".
When this is enabled, a user who is using a Citrix app and tries to Open/Save a file, the save or open dialog (or Windows Explorer) shows the My Document or Desktop folders that exist on the local (client) PC. This is completely transparent to the user.
This makes it easy for users in a Citrix published app to use their local files without having to navigate to Client (C:) \users\Theirname\Desktop.
I'm evaluating using RemoteApp under Server 2012 R2 as a possible replacement for Citrix. Is it possible to emulate this feature?
Thanks,
Tom

Hi Tom,
As I understand your question, you want to place the RemoteApp file on your client local desktop instead of searching the other long way. If misunderstand please clarify. If you want the way which I told, then seems no need to do any special task, just can
open the RD Web URL on local computer, access with username and password and after that check the related RemoteApp. Once you find the RemoteApp we can download the rdp file of that RemoteApp on local system desktop. You can check below snap for detail.
Hope it helps!
Thanks.
Dharmesh Solanki
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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>

Folder redirection configured in GPO does not create Documents folder and does not redirect

Hi
Another Folder Redirect-post - sorry for that, but I could not find an answer for my problem so far: even with consulting many threads here...
We have an existing environment under Windows XP and want to move away from that. Now I ran into troubles with folder redirection...
The following folder- and permission structure exists so far:
\\<server>\<Users$-share>: This is the base folder for all users-directories
-> Permissions: SYSTEM: Full / Administrators: Full / Users: Read&Execute, only this folder
-> Share-permissions: Authenticated users: Full control
\\<server>\<Users$-share>\<username>: base folder for the specific user
-> Permissions: SYSTEM: Full / Administrators: Full / User: Change, all permissions inherited onwards
-> Giving only change permission prevent further problems with self-called "advanced users"... ;-)
\\<server>\<Users$-share>\<username>\profil.V2: Profile directory of the user
-> Of course here the permissions are set by the system: override the predefined permission
\\<server>\<Users$-share>\<username>\daten: Atcual Home directory of the user
\\<server>\<Users$-share>\<username>\daten\Documents: Suposed Documents directory of the user
Now I am going to Server 2012 and Windows 8.1, configured the GPO to redirect Documents folder into the above mentioned:
GPO - User configuration - Policies - Windows settings - Folder Redirection - Documents:
Setting: Standart - redirects all folders to the same path
Destination folder: Copy to base directory of the user
I apply policy to the user, log out and in - it doesn't work, no folder Documents created in my home-folder, Folder Documents still configured at C:\Users\<user>\Documents
A very special point:
I also do Redirection of the My Pictures-folder: Define it to follow the Documents folder. Funnily that one works and creates and configures \\<server>\<Users$-share>\<username>\daten\Pictures
-> So in my eyes, it should work!
Then: I want to do the folder redirection without Offline Files, due to the fact, that our users work with dynamically assigned virtual desktops, which are been cleaned everytime a user logs off a machine. Therefore synchronizing doesn't make sense...
I just cannot see, why this redirection does not work :-(
Thank you very much for any help!
Kind regards
David

Hi David,
Before going further, would you please let me confirm the OS version of the Windows Server which you used to
configure folder redirection? Based on your description, did you mean that those users (who will be applied folder redirection settings) logged on Windows XP client computer?
When you configure the folder redirection setting in Document Properties (path:
User Configuration-> Policies-> Windows Settings-> Folder Redirection-> Documents), please check if you checked “Also apply redirection policy to Windows 2000, Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 operating system” in Settings
tab. As below picture shows.
à
GPO - User configuration - Policies - Windows settings - Folder Redirection - Documents:
à•Setting: Standart
- redirects all folders to the same path
à•Destination
folder: Copy to base directory of the user
Would you please provide a screenshot of those settings you describe? Meanwhile, please summarily describe
that how you configure. For example, where this GPO link to? Or any other. It will help me to understand clearly. Thanks for your understanding.
In addition, please use
gpresult command to check if the folder redirection group policy was really applied.
If any update, please feel free to let me know.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Justin Gu

Is it possible to manually setup a Folder Redirection Policy on SBS 2008 for one user? Also are you able to set up folder redirection on a different server than you have SBS 2008 on?

I have a SBS 2008 DC I would like to be able to change the Folder Redirection to a different server. I also would like to be able to test with one user. I read on the forums that it is best to use the wizards for SBS2008. The only problem
I have with using the wizards is that I am unable to test and I am also unable to use a network share for my redirection location.

Hi,
I am sure you would get some help from :
http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2010/10/08/folder-redirection-in-small-business-server-2008.aspx
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/448583ca-471e-4a0c-9d26-aa9181e73962/folder-redirection-changing-location?forum=smallbusinessserver
User setting can be found:
Windows SBS Console > Shared Folders and Web Sites > Shared Folders - in Tasks panel click on Redirect folders for user accounts to the server.
Under Folder Names Select folder(s) you want to redirect (e.g. Documents).
Under User Accounts select accounts you want to have folders redirected.
Click OK
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App-v 5.0 sp3 Publish application icons/ shourtcut missed on 2nd time logon on terminal server 2012 r2 with roaming profile with folder redirection

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roaming profiles with folder redirection which are running in current environment through APP-V 4.6 2008 R2. Please suggest work around to resolve this issue.
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Thanks

1.) What are you doing with the App-V Icon path? e.g. %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\AppV\Client\Integration\<GUID>\Root\AppVClientUX.exe.0.ico ?
I guess you could workaround it with deploying the icons to a central location and then pointing to the icon out on a central share. Or put the icons in a machine location...I haven't had this issue but that's just off the top of my head.
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Step by step to disable Folder Redirection for a single user - Windows 7 and SBS 2011 Essentials

OK...I got chewed (by someone I have a lot of respect for) for pounding on an old thread, so I'm starting a new one. I've got the Windows 7 Value Pack Plugin for SBS 2011 Essentials and Folder Redirection is working for everybody. What I'm looking for is
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... I've got the Windows 7 Value Pack Plugin for SBS 2011 Essentials and Folder Redirection is working for everybody. What I'm looking for is exactly how to go into Group Policy and disable the FD for a single user. I'm not looking for quick, incomplete
answers....
Hi Wayne,
Here's what I'd do.
1) create a Security Group in your AD environment. Call it 'Folder Redirection Members' or something like that. Put all the user accounts in your AD environment who you want to have their folders continue to be redirected to the server, do not include the
one user who you wish to exclude. in other words, you're going to use a specific security group to target the Folder Redirection policy (right now, it's Domain Users, which is everyone).
2) Edit the Group Policy that the W7PP created in your AD environment. It's likely called "W7PVP Folder Redirection". Start with verification under the Settings tab, expand Folder Redirection beneath User Configuration states that
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add in Folder Redirection Members (or whatever you named your group in step 1).
3) on your workstation that your user you are applying the change to disable folder redirection, Log on to the domain account while connected to your network, elevate a command prompt, and perform a 'gpupdate /force' command and then reboot your computer.
Folder redirection configuration should be removed from the system and redirected contents should be restored back to your local path. Verify with inspection of the My Documents or other folders.
Hope this helps. Keep in mind, no warranty implied or expressed in this advice.
Try not to be so darn grumpy. :-/
Jason Miller B.Comm (Hons), MCSA:Win7, MCITP, Microsoft MVP

Folder redirection with Offline files enabled - Can I change the location of the locally cached files?

I have a 2012 r2 server setup with folder redirection and offline files enabled. All this works perfectly.
As you probably know, the local cache for offline files is stored at c:\windows\csc\v2.0.6\namespace\servername\
The problem I have run into is that one user (who cannot be told to delete files cough ceo cough) has a very large documents folder, and a small SSD drive for his C drive. So the offline files are filling up his SSD. He wants all his files to be synced,
so decreasing the max disk usage is also not an option.
What I would like to do is move the Offline files to his D drive which is a large drive, however I have been unable to find any official method for doing this. Is there any provision to change this?
If not, would it work to move the entire \servername\ path to the d drive and then create a junction at c:\windows\csc\v2.0.6\namespace\servername\ that points to d:\servername\?
Thanks,
Travis

Hi,
The following article is for Windows Vista but it should work at least in Windows 7.
How to change the location of the CSC folder by configuring the CacheLocation registry value in Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937475
Meanwhile creating a symbolic link should also work like:
mklink /d "C:\Windows\CSC" "D:\CSC"
Note: It will create d:\csc folder so you do not need to manually create it.
Note 2: As mentioned above, you may need to re-sync the offline files. Personally I also think robocopy will not work.
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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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Frank Shen

Recognize Special Folder in JFileChooser

Hi, does anyone know how to recognize special project folders like in NETBEANS 5.5 inside a JFileChooser??
I want to create an application to handle "Projects" (which contains configuration files and data files for such project).
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Thanx!

http://java.sun.com/developer/JDCTechTips/2004/tt0316.html
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Windows 8 Folder Redirection/offline files not working

I am trying to deploy 4 brand new HP Laptops running windows 8 Professional into a windows 2008 domain however folder redirection is not working
These users have folder redirection enabled via group policy and this works fine under their old laptops in windows 7
For windows 8 I see an error in the event log :
Error 7023 - The offline files service terminated with the following error : the system cannot find the path specified
I also get this error if I manually try to start the offline files service.
This is happening on all 4 brand new laptops. All latest available updates installed.

I am trying to deploy 4 brand new HP Laptops running windows 8 Professional into a windows 2008 domain however folder redirection is not working
These users have folder redirection enabled via group policy and this works fine under their old laptops in windows 7
For windows 8 I see an error in the event log :
Error 7023 - The offline files service terminated with the following error : the system cannot find the path specified
I also get this error if I manually try to start the offline files service.
This is happening on all 4 brand new laptops. All latest available updates
installed.
The error as you have already observed is a critical error blocking the service from running. So that must be about the computer software configuration.
You claim brand new, latest updates etc. - however to use i.e. folder redirection, gpo's etc. you're modifying the software configuraton. I.e. not quite brand new or unchanged (except for those may be important changes, guess those machines are indeed brand
new or just bought ... however still in change as any other software managed machines)
For some reason could be corruption of system configuration, but how? Unlike coincidence of 3 of 4 computers failing to start that services? I.e. have you done any changes to offline files etc, scripts or some stuff with gpo's.
Try exploring the Windows log and take a look at the detail for the error events.
Use process monitor from Microsoft to trace what happens when you try to start the Windows service ...
Just tips for determining the bug ...
Out-of-the-box this should not happen ... for folder redirection and offline files ... it's actually the Windows client going to get those files ... so take a look at the client and try to trace the bug.
My best guess is something is changed on the client - and your customized system or software is doing it. Or something wrong with the configuration. I.e. if you have relocated the CSC cache ...
In my experience the best way to debug this problem is to use Process Monitor ... and i.e. come up with a fix based on the observations i.e. if you have relocated the csc cache to some place where it is actually not available or incorrectly configured
(i.e. take a look at the Result column and looked for failed operations in context with CSC cache operations)
If you don't know how to do this - don't relocate the CSC cache ... (i.e. if you did this to conserve space on i.e. your SDD's with i.e. smaller capacity than legacy-HD). The real problem is the Folder Redirection Client on the Window Client going to
pin the entire folder hierarchy of the users workspace, i.e. documents. Either move files out of that area or use group policy to disable pining entire user "storage area". Microsoft should make the Folder Redirection Client more flexiable, i.e. add option
to exclude part of folder hierarchy. But you can do this by using gpo to disable folder redirection auto-cache of all files - and then instead have users explicitly pin their mobile folders. However for some folders like favorites, desktop and so on you can
actually use batch and wmic to set pin of some folders containing usually less data using a startup script and gpo. That Works ... and simulates i.e. excluding the stored data in user libraries like documents, videos, music ...
... anyway added this based on a "suspension" on what you are really trying to obtain ... but the solution is not to move the CSC cache to aqquire more space, i.e. a user can put 1 TB in their videos ... the solution is to program the Folder Redirection
Client differently ... untill Microsoft add that functionality.

No more special folder icon after moved My Documents to network

Hi,
I am on W7 Pro SP1 64bit in workgroup mode. Recently I moved (or folder redirection) the Documents (aka My Documents), My Pictures and few others user folders (those user folders in \Users\<User_Name>\<folder_name>) to a network share hosted
by a non-Windows NAS. At the same time, Offline Files ("Always Available Offline") feature was turned on for those folders. Everything works fine but I no longer get the unique folder icon for each of these said folders. These folders used to be like this...
but now they become like this...
i went to Properties but "Choose Folder Icon" button is not available...
when i unhide hidden and system protected files, i could see the desktop.ini is there.
anyone know how can i restore the folder icons?
any help is highly appreciated! TQVM in advance!
TQ! Jacko

Hi,
As you can see, these icons indicate that these folders are offline files, based on my research, this is by design so as to we can know what files are offline files.
Have a nice day.
Alex Zhao
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GPO Folder redirection using Powershell

Dear,
how can i configure a gpo for Folder Redirection using powershell.
I would like to create gpo's with all kinds of folder redirection configurations using a script.
Davy

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Can I direct all users in one OU to share a common desktop/my document? (Folder Redirection)

Say we have a few OU's, each OU will only have 1 active user at any given time. Lets call it OU: A,B,C,D. When a person leaves, I want the new user to be able to access all of the same desktop/documents of the previous user. I don't want to have to come
in and copy the desktop/my documents folder each time for this.
Say if User in OU "A" leaves and there's a temp/replacement, can I just copy the existing user's profile and create a new one in OU A and have the new user be able to log in with their new account but have all the desktops and my documents
of the previous user. Of course if this can be achieved, even when the machine gets replaced, the desktops/my documents are there.
At the moment, we have shared folder for those groups of people but we're not enforcing them to save to the mapped drive. Lots of them have no idea what a mapped drive is. :( I want to simplify this process and get away with spending hours of backing up/restoring
people's my documents and desktops when they come and go.
Danny

Hi,
I don't think we can set multiple users to a same redirected folder.
Under Basic - Redirect everyone's folder to the same location, there is only one option seems close to your purpose which is "Redirect to the following location". However to get it work, the user need to be the owner of the target folder, and it will not
work even we set Everyone as the Owner.
Meanwhile I do not understand why you would like to share a redirected Desktop with all users. If you would like to share files or folders, you can map a folder for all users. If you would like to publish applications to all users, you can deploy application
through Group Policy.
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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

Library Folder Redirect causing MCX Problems for groups

Hi there,
My problem is related to this topic:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1685965&tstart=15
I have found that the only way to stop my afp server freaking out, and slowing down (drastically) the end users experience is to redirect the Library folder from their home folder to /tmp/user/Library so that it's being read and written locally.
The only problem with this of course is that all preferences are reset to default each time a user logs in. I'm not so bothered about that but it seems that my group MCX preferences are also not being created. Or at least some of them aren't, the dock seems fine but the preferences for the apple mouse for instance aren't being picked up.
I'm wondering if this is because the MCXRedirect isn't creating the Library folder quick enough for certain preferences to be copied!?
I've tried redirecting sub folders within the Library folder except Preferences but I still get the slow down (for instance Safari bounces about 7 times on launch without the Library folder redirected, It bounces just once with the redirect.
I'm wondering if there's a way to set the defaults locally on each machine, so that even if MCX doesn't work, the machines own default preferences could be replaced by mine!?
I'm running out of ideas, I have four brand new iMac suites, a very fast new server with plenty of RAM, running on a gigabit network and my users all complain of crippling slowness, constant beach-balling.
Thanks in advance!!

It didn't do anything to Front Row on my computer. I doubt it did anything on yours, either.
1) Update wouldn't have done that. There is no code in the update to replace that string with 10.5.8.
2) Your boot files are messed up or non-existent. Very rarely this can be fixed without reinstalling the system.
3) There are always a lot of permissions that can't be repaired by DU because they don't need to be repaired. They're not broken, just different. Did you check permissions before you applied the update?
4) Sounds like you have serious hardware problems. With the Snow Leopard disk installed, can you restart while holding down Option key and get to the startup manager? If so, pick the Snow Leopard disk and boot from it. Use Disk Utility in the Utilities menu (available after selecting a language) and repair the disk. Don't repair permissions from that disk.
If it finds errors and fixes them, try booting from the hard drive. You may have to re-install Snow Leopard.

Recreate User Profile that uses Folder Redirection

Hi all,
I would to recreate a user profile that is utilizing Folder Redirection. What I would like to do is have the user log back into their computer and have their profile to be recreated. I don't want any of the existing data to be copied over, I just want to
them to log in and have the system recreate the folder redirection, as if they were a new user logging in for the first time. We redirect the AppData, My documents, and desktop only. It's a windows 7 system as well. What's the best way I can accomplish
this?
Thanks

> and have their profile to be recreated. I don't want any of the existing
> data to be copied over
If they didn't have a local profile before, there is no "existing data".
And to be honest, I don't fully understand your question and your goal :)
Martin
Mal ein
GUTES Buch über GPOs lesen?
NO THEY ARE NOT EVIL, if you know what you are doing:
Good or bad GPOs?
And if IT bothers me - coke bottle design refreshment :))

Special Folder Redirection like in Citrix

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