Home Folder redirection Error

[Javier Hernandez]

Good morning everyone,

I am experiencing an error message on our Home folder redirection policy since we started switching users over to our new DFS environment, this policy has been in effect for years and now since we started switching everyone over it still keeps the users pointing to the old directory.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this? I have tried multiple things but still nothing. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

I hope everyone has a great day.

Thank you,

Javier

[Aakash Shah]

To clarify, were users pointed to a non-DFS location for years, and then they were recently moved over to a DFS location recently? Or are users pointing to the same DFS location as they have been for many years, but recently the DFS target was changed to a new server?

 

What does your GPO configuration look like? And does relogging in not help or do you keep seeing the same message after subsequent logins too?

 

-Aakash Shah

 

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[Javier Hernandez]

We were pointing users to regular file servers. Then migrated user folders to dfs location preserving permissions with Beyond compare.

Then i updated users home folder on AD using powershell.

Below is an example of the old and new locations.

Ie.

Old

\\SITE-FS3\users$\user.name

New

\\SITE-DFS1.DOMAIN.LOCAL\Root\USERS\user.name

We have seen it solved by just deleting users profiles  and recreating them. Then when it gets recreated it points to the proper new location. The only set back is copying over user data, etc and sometimes users log into multiple pc’s.

Policy is set to Basic-redirect everyone folder to same location 

Target folder location-redirect to the users home directory 

All checkboxes checked on settings and leave the folder on the new location for policy removal 

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[Aakash Shah]

If you are already migrating/copying the data with Beyond Compare, I would suggest not setting “Move the contents of <folder> to the new location”. We don’t use this in our environment since I’ve had problems with it. Instead if we ever need to move/migrate, we migrate using robocopy and our FR GP is set to not try to migrate the files again and hence any change in the path is reflected more easily.

 

This is the configuration we use that has worked well for us, even when moving data:

Grant user exclusive rights to Desktop: Disabled

Move the contents of Desktop to the new location: Disabled

Also apply redirection policy to Windows 2000, Windows 2000 server, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 operating systems: Disabled

 

Policy Removal Behavior: Leave contents

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