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Redirect Folders to tsclient

I have a RDS 2016 deployment in which I am *trying* to implement folder redirection. My wish (daresay dream) is to redirect the profile folders on the session host to the users local profile. Does anyone have any tricks up their sleeve to accomplish this that doesn't involve OneDrive or creating a network share on the user's local computer?

I'm looking for something that can use the path \\tsclient\c\Users\%username%\. It seems the tsclient doesn't get created until after logon and therefor isn't accessible during logon when folder redirection is applied.

Thanks!
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Why would you want that?
To me, it makes more sense to redirect the folders to the same folder on a network share. Documents should not be kept locally.
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Because it's simple, cheap and satisfies the requirements....
This should do the trick :


In order to force folder redirection on the terminal server you have to do this:

- Creat a GPO and link it to the OU containing your TS
- In that GPO set required folder redirection
- In the same GPO enable Loopback Processing (so that Foder Redirection would work only when the users log on to that server)

Have a look at this for the general guidance:

http://kudratsapaev.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-you-need-to-know-aboout-installing.html



https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/b3e2e5c4-3b03-4655-ba7a-8e0b329ad719/folder-redirection-in-terminal-server-remote-desktop
It's not simple as you see for the reason that you found (drive not available immediately).
It's not performant, either (using \\tsclient\c\... is very slow).
Not recommendable and very probably not doable unless you want too use scripts that wait, map it and restart explorer.

Standard and proven:
workstation: documents redirected to \\fileserver\share\username
terminalserver: same
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I've setup several farms and I'm familiar with loopback processing and folder redirection using a shared drive, but that is not what I am trying to accomplish. I am simply trying to find out if anyone has a proven solution to redirect a user folder back to the user's local machine without the use of an SMB share. I appreciate the suggestions and opinions. Using \\tsclient\c obviously won't work. I can use \\%clientname%\c$, but that doesn't satisfy the "without an SMB share" requirement. 

If there is no simple solution then I will likely invoke OneDrive since it looks like I can redirect OneDrive. How typically Microsoft....
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