Undo a redirected folder true GPO WS2K8

Hi all,
About a year ago, we applied a GPO for redirecting userfolders like; AppData, Desktop, Pictures, Downloads, etc. We experienced a lot of data in the Downloads folder so we want to undo our redirect but we only want to undo our redirect for the Download folder
and not the other folders.
So we only want to undo our Downloads folder redirect and it needs to be redirected again to the local machine, can anybody help me with this?
I would like to thank you in advance. Please, feel free to contact me for further details.
Kind regards,
Jordi Martin Lago

Hi Jordi,
In addition, to redirect special folders to the local profile location, the following steps can be referred to as reference:
1. Open a GPO that is linked to the site, domain, or OU that contains the users whose special folders you want to redirect.
2. In the console tree, double-click Folder Redirection to display the special folder that you want to redirect.
3. Right-click the special folder that you want to redirect (such as Desktop or My Documents), and then click Properties.
4. In the Setting box on the Target tab, select Basic - Redirect everyone’s folder to the same location.
5.
Under Target folder location, select Redirect to the local user profile location, and then click OK.
Regarding how to configure folder redirection, the following article can be referred to for more information.
Configuring Folder Redirection
http://technet.microsoft.com/library/cc786749.aspx
Best regards,
Frank Shen

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Task Category: None
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Keywords:
User:          domain\ivan
Computer:      computer.domain.name
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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
JR SBS Specialist

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