Hi guys! This has been giving me a hard time the last day or so. I've got some Win8 machines in our 2003 domain. I've got some GPO's applying with WMI filtering for win8 machines. Mostly these are ok, but i'm having a huge problem with Desktop Folder Redirection.
After a fresh build and first login, everything works fine. Drive mappings are all there and the Desktop is redirected to to users home drive on the file server. This is being done with Advanced settings using group membership and set to "Create a folder for each user under the root path" \\dfs1\users. This location is correct and permissions are fine of course as everything works for a while.
After a little while or some unknown event, this redirection stops working.
check these two screengrabs. These are different users on different machines. The machines are identical, are in the same OU and have the same image. The users are different but have the same group memberships and are in the same OU.
This is a working machine. Not the Folder Redirection component was processed and the Policy exists.
This machine is not working. Folder Redirection is processed, but the Policy is missing. Running a gpresult /v on this machine yields:
Folder Redirection
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N/A
It was working fine yesterday and this morning. Now at some point a policy refresh stopped it from working. Just trying to figure out what! These are the exact settings currently in place for our win 7 machines which all work just fine. Going a bit crazy tbh and usually when i post questions i figure it out shortly afterwards anyway huhu. Any help is appreciated!
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