Windows 2008 R2 folders greyed out

We have a windows 2008 r2 file server and some of our users are seeing some of the folders on our shares greyed out. We have their macbooks linked to the AD domain and the file shares mapped. This just started happening a few weeks ago. our users are running the latest version of OS X with the latest updates.
Ed

I am not entirely sure what you mean.
But from what I'm surmising is that if all the problems started after installing an update, and there are no GPOs controlling remote desktop properties that are applying to this machine that are controlling the RDP settings (making them grayed out when you
try to alter them on the machine, which is what a GPO would probably do with managed settings, of course depending on the settings), then I would highly suggest and recommend to contact Microsoft support. Support is FREE for Windows update problems.
http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/
And since you've asked a question, I would also suggest to change this thread type to a "Question."
I hope that helps.
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