dkuhlman
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My Documents Library/Folder redirection
I recently did a server upgrade which ended up requiring us to remake a number of users on local machines (rename old user from the 'Users' or 'Documents and Settings' folders) and then create a new user. The users are all on a domain but the local user profiles were having issues.
We were able to get the user profiles remade but now the 'My Documents' folder doesn't point to the server location but, rather, the local 'My Documents' folder/library. If anyone has advice for getting them to point back to the proper server location, that would be great!
Thanks!
We were able to get the user profiles remade but now the 'My Documents' folder doesn't point to the server location but, rather, the local 'My Documents' folder/library. If anyone has advice for getting them to point back to the proper server location, that would be great!
Thanks!
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Thank you TG-TIS, I will attempt that
binumicrosoft, I believe the upgrade was from SBS2003 to SBS2011, we ended up having a permissions issue where users were unable to access their previous document location on the server, we reset the user profiles on the local machines and the permissions issue was no longer present. However, instead of 'my documents' pointing to something like server/usershares/username they now point to the default windows location. We can now map and access the //server/usershares/userna me location, so the permissions issue is gone, but I want to get the users back to having the server location be where 'my documents' points.
Thanks
binumicrosoft, I believe the upgrade was from SBS2003 to SBS2011, we ended up having a permissions issue where users were unable to access their previous document location on the server, we reset the user profiles on the local machines and the permissions issue was no longer present. However, instead of 'my documents' pointing to something like server/usershares/username
Thanks
The location of My Documents is defined in the Registry. To change it, change this key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software \Microsoft \Windows\C urrentVers ion\Explor er\Shell Folders
Value Name: Personal
Value Type: REG_SZ
You can change that with a group policy or the reg.exe command in a script.
After changing this, any documents that were created locally will have to be manually moved to the server share.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software
Value Name: Personal
Value Type: REG_SZ
You can change that with a group policy or the reg.exe command in a script.
After changing this, any documents that were created locally will have to be manually moved to the server share.
Hi Dkuhlman,
Did you try my solution? Did it resolve your problem?
Did you try my solution? Did it resolve your problem?
From Which OS to Which OS was the upgrade done?
Did you follow some white paper ?