Why redirect application data

This is great if you have a laptop and a desktop, or if you have a set of workstations that can be used by anyone. It's also great when it comes time to re-image a users PC. They will be scared that they will lose all their settings but if you have this folder redirected then the settings will all be there after the wipe. It seems odd that people here would all recommend not roaming a folder called "Roaming". I think some admins are afraid of the old "Roaming Profiles" which this is not.

You can use the modern folder redirection to achieve this functionality in a more robust way. To continue this discussion, please ask a new question.

Get answers from your peers along with millions of IT pros who visit Spiceworks. Popular Topics in Windows Server. Spiceworks Help Desk. That makes sense Justin. That being said, how can I tell if it's being "seen" by my testuser? As per my original settings, delegation includes my testGroup, of which I have a testUser. The gpresult screenshot above was ran from that user account, but the changes are not being applied, and I'm not sure where to look to find out if this GPO is being "seen" at all.

I assumed that gpresult would show that GPO, but that's not the case. You either have to link that policy to the OU that user is in or move that user to that OU where you have the test policy linked. They can be filtered by groups though. Make sure that Authenticated Users has a read delegation. There was an update MS that changed how user policies are read.

They are read by the computer account now. As for the group membership not showing up, is this a laptop? Make sure the machine has a constant connection to the dc when you login and out. Group membership is applied on login and if you are logging in with cached creds you won't pull new group membership. Justin, you're becoming my best friend, looks like you're sharing your wisdom on all of my posts, and believe me, it's highly appreciated. It is not a laptop, it's a desktop, on wifi. First, the server does not have unlimited storage capacity, and space must be available to store every user's profile.

Second, a roaming profile is downloaded to the local machine each time you log on, and uploaded to the server each time you log off. A very large profile can cause significant delays in your logon and logoff, can cause network congestion, and can become corrupted. Roaming profiles have a quota limit of MB.

You will be warned when you go over quota and not allowed to log off until you are within quota. In certain instances, over quota profiles can get uploaded to the server. If this happens, you will receive a warning by email. Failure to respond can result in your account being disabled. Profiles generally grow in size over time.

The most common cause for going over quota is that Folder Redirection fails. When Folder Redirection fails, files that should be stored in your My Documents are saved into your roaming profile, instead of being redirected. DropBox is known to do this, among many others. There are also other possibilities to numerous to list here.

If you receive the error below it is because your profile has grown too big. We restrict the size of your profile to prevent it becoming too large which would cause logons to take a long time.

The Specops Password Policy solution helps to enforce good password use in your environment, including real-time checking for breached Microsoft has officially begun to roll out Windows 10 20H2. At the same time, it is delivering the newest If you type a term into the search field of the taskbar, Windows 10 enhances the local results with Thanks for your useful article, I had a problem with my home redirection ,some information: 1. I have a server R2 2. I did home folder with gpo after home redirection with gpo ,windows 7s had problems,they logged in from out of domain and they didnt see their files and folders and a black screen occurred and slow lo gin.

So I decided to delete the policy but the problems remained. In my case, the GPO was originally created and maintained with a Windows 7 management station. I'd first check that the permissions are correct on the share and that user's can access their files if they browse manually to the UNC path.

You should also run use gpresult to see that the user's are getting the policy properly. Last, I'm not quite sure what you mean in bullet 3 of your list since you're not being very clear about the issue.

If the users are having slow logons and not seeing their files, Offline Files may not have fully synced yet.

You need to look at gpresult to see that they're getting the policy and then the Event Log to see if you're getting errors on anything. I'm not quite sure I understand the problem you're having. What folder are you trying to redirect? Did it redirect to the server successfully? Which folder are you trying to delete?

Michael, I have a situation where the folder recdirection was setup incorrectly in the group policy and needs to be corrected. However, none of the changes made 'stick". The problem is that it is redirecting to the servers C: drive!

This is done from a server R2 domain controller. Any ideas on how to correct this? Do I need to delete the policy and recreate it then create another GPO to change the registry on the Windows 7 workstations? Not sure why I can make other changes to that GPO and they stay when closed out but not to the folder redirection Hi Mike Actually, I'm the author of this article. If you look at the first option, it is: "Leave the folder in the new location when the policy is removed.

Odds are, that's how your Folder Redirection was configured if it is staying after you remove the policy. If you're looking for the simplest way to get the folders redirected back to the local disk, go to the Target tab and set the Setting option to "Basic - Redirect everyone's folder to the same location.

The only gotcha is that the user won't be able to manually configure the redirection. Thank you for this post. It saved me from wasting even more time in trying to fix this on a W R2 server! In my experience the biggest problem with redirecting data folders, particularly the "My Documents" dir to a share and back again is Third Party Software.

Have you ever experienced applications which are so stubborn with where they put their data that no amount of cajoling or prying can get them to release their hold on the location? I inherited an environment that has folder redirection turned on. I have made some progress, but have run into a question.

I have been able to disable the folder redirection, but I'm curious if I can tweak it a bit. Right now, I have the folder redirection going away and it makes a copy of the contents on the local hard drive as well as leaving a copy on the users home drive. What I would like to have happen is leave the contents on the home drive and get rid of the redirection.

Going forward they can store some stuff locally, but we would tell them to use their home drive for anything that should get backed up, etc. Let me know if I can provide any screenshots to help. I am attempting to disable redirection. Initially, "Leave Content in the Current location" was selected and I changed it to "When policy is removed, redirect to local profile. About a week later, I set it to not configured and that too does not seem to resolve the issue. I have now set the policy to Basic Redirection back to the user profile as well enable redirection the folder back to the local userprofile location when policy is removed.

I've had the current configuration for several days now and it does not seem to redirect users documents from our file server Server to their local profile. How can I force this policy to be applied? When a conduct a client side gpo update does not seem to work and I really need to get this working as we need to decommission our Outdated Server GPOs are being created and hosted on Server R2. Any help is greatly appreciated.