Group Policy or Folder Re-Direction trick / setting
Windows 2003 terminal server:
I have a setup where the previous IT person somehow has all the user folders "mirroring" on the administator user's desktop. Folder redirection was not setup in group policy for my documents, only desktop. However my docouments target location was altered for each user. So here is the setup, and what is displaying:
D:\Users = Where the User folders on the terminal server are.
D:\Users\%username%\docs = Where the my documents target folder is for each user.
D:\Users\%username%\deskto
The administrator user shows all of the folders that are in D:\Users on the adminstrator's desktop. If I add a user, that user's folder immediately shows up on the Administrator user's desktop. So it's not shortcuts. What setting is enabling this?
I have a setup where the previous IT person somehow has all the user folders "mirroring" on the administator user's desktop. Folder redirection was not setup in group policy for my documents, only desktop. However my docouments target location was altered for each user. So here is the setup, and what is displaying:
D:\Users = Where the User folders on the terminal server are.
D:\Users\%username%\docs = Where the my documents target folder is for each user.
D:\Users\%username%\deskto
The administrator user shows all of the folders that are in D:\Users on the adminstrator's desktop. If I add a user, that user's folder immediately shows up on the Administrator user's desktop. So it's not shortcuts. What setting is enabling this?
Hypercat (Deb)
I would guess that probably the Administrator user's desktop is redirected to the D:\Users folder.
ASKER
Well that would make sense. I will check that out.
ASKER
Sorry I forgot that I asked this.
Hypercat, how does one redirect the desktop, other than through group policy? The desktop redirect group policy is inactive.
Hypercat, how does one redirect the desktop, other than through group policy? The desktop redirect group policy is inactive.
ASKER
I would like to object to deletion until this is resolved
ASKER
I would like to object to deletion until this is resolved
What do you mean that it's inactive? I don't know of any other way off the top of my head, although there may be a registry entry that you could change manually. One thing you need to check is that for group policy folder redirection to work, the user must be the Owner of the redirected folder as well as having Full NTFS permissions.
ASKER
I mean that the desktop folder redirection policy is undefined.
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