I've been running into strange problems testing the Folder Redirection feature using Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
I've given all users a Home Folder mapped to drive letter H: set using Active Directory Users and Computers, so that the home folders have the right permissions. When the users log on they can see the H drive, and are able to user that drive to store files.
I then create a Group Policy to redirect the Documents Folder to the Home Folder:
I select Basic - Redirect everyone's folder to the same location
Redirect to the users's home directory
On the bottom of the screen I see the following statement: "This setting ignores the value of the 'Grant the exclusive rights to Documents' option on the settings page.
However if I do not uncheck the 'Grant the exclusive rights to Documents' checkbox on the settings page the Document folder does not get redirected !
Now comes the problem. I noticed that existing documents did not get copied over to the new location and there was no sync partnership set up, even though offline folders and files are enabled. Unless I manually select documents from the folder and select Sync the partnership is not set up, and existing documents, as well as documents created while in offline mode, are never copied to the server.