I recently took over admining a network that had "Grant User exclusive rights to Documents" checked in the Group Policy. I have since changed this, and new users are being set up correctly, but all of the other users who were added to the network before I made the GP change, I still can not access their redirected My Documents folders. I have tried everything that I can think of and find in the forums, and the only thing that works is making myself the Owner of each individuals My Documents folder. This would be fine, except it messes with logon and they can't access their own My Documents folders afterwards.
Any ideas on how to change the permission on all of the users folders without disrupting their access to them?
and yes, I already tried this with no luck either........
Please perform the following steps to enable the administrator to have access to redirected folders
To set security on the shared folders in Windows Server 2003
1. Log on as an administrator to the server that can host the user's redirected folders.
2. Locate the top-level folder that can hold the user's redirected documents (for example, D:\Redirected, which is shared as\\Server\Redirected\) by using Windows Explorer. Right-click the folder, and then click Properties.
3. Click the Security tab.
4. Click Advanced.
5. Click to clear the Allow inheritable permissions from the parent to propagate to this object and all child objects. Include these with entries explicitly defined here. check box.
6. When you are prompted to copy or remove permissions, click Remove.
7. If the Administrators group is not present, click Add, type Administrators, and then click OK.
8. Select the Administrators group, and then click Edit.
9. Verify that the Full Control permission is set to Allow, and then click OK.
10. Click Add, and add System and Creator Owner to the Permissions entries.
11. Verify that the System and Creator Owner objects have the Full Control / Allow permission.
12. Click Add, add Authenticated Users, and then set the following permissions to Allow:
o Create Folders / Append Data
o Read Permissions
o Read Attributes
o Read Extended Attributes
13. Close all property sheets and dialog boxes.
To configure the Folder Redirection feature
1. Open the Group Policy object where Folder Redirection policy is set.
2. Under User Configuration, double-click Windows Settings.
3. Double-click Folder Redirection.
4. Click the folder you want to configure (for example, My Documents). Right-click the folder, and then click Properties.
5. Select the Settings property page, click to clear the Grant the user exclusive rights to My Documents check box, and then click OK.
6. Close all windows.
For more information, please refer to the following Microsoft KB article:
Enabling the administrator to have access to redirected folders
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/288991