Folder Redirection GPO not being applied
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This one has me stumped. A user had a profile issue that started from day 1, there were a bunch of changes made to her profile like dept change, name change, etc all within like 45 minutes. Shouldn't matter but then she would have sync issues and so forth. So I decided to copy her emails to username1 from username, copy her documents over, etc. I purged username from both file servers which are replicated and healthy. I've done replication tests and things work fine. Her target server is set to the correct (geographically closest) server. She has permissions and other GPOs are applying fine. I've checked the Scope Links & security filtering. Everything is correct there. Doing a gpresult /z I see other settings from the User Policy being applied, but not folder redirection.
In another note, any brand new users being created, redirect their folders/auto-create a folder on the file share just fine. It's just this one account that I can't get to create a new folder. I do not want to manually do any of this, I want the system to do it so I know everything is working the way it should.
I've already re-created the user profile after purging anything and everything relating to that username.
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Anyone...?
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Have you tried deleting the profile from the user's computer?
What happens when you log in as that user from another computer?
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Computer in the wrong group in AD?
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gpupdate /force
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@Dashrender said:
Have you tried deleting the profile from the user's computer?
What happens when you log in as that user from another computer?
Same thing. I went as far as to create a brand new user "Davey Jones". New users, we've never had a problem with. But now, this brand new user is experiencing the same issue so it seems to be systemtic. But I just created a new user a few days ago and things were fine. Replication tests across the file shares work fine (create a document, and go to the other server and immediately see it there). The target server is geographically the closest. I've been looking for some corruption in SYSVOL but I don't see version differences or anything of the sort.
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what does GP Results give you? Any errors? do you see that the expected GPOs are in fact applying? I think you mentioned this already, but it's worth double checking.
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@Dashrender said:
what does GP Results give you? Any errors? do you see that the expected GPOs are in fact applying? I think you mentioned this already, but it's worth double checking.
running a gpresult /z shows that it is applying the various policies. If I scroll down further, Folder Redirection shows as N/A. But everything else in that policy (home page, etc) shows its definitions.
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@Dashrender more specifically, the resultant for Folder Redirection shows as N/A.
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Can you show us a screen shot of the config you have of the GPO?
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My current function level is at 2003 and I don't have any known issues of drives not mapping.
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@BBigford said:
ow, this brand new user is experiencing the same issue so it seems to be systemtic. But I just created a new user a few days ag
You've mentioned that you've tried this on brand new user you created, davey jones, and it's not working for them.
Did you try only the same machine? How about trying both the user's and davey on a different computer.
Perhaps you have a network/cable/switch port issue?I've had latency issues cause weird problems for me in the past - sure I saw connectivity, and could ping.. but weirdness was there just the same. It ended up being a bad cable.
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Does this new user have an under water locker?
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I found an article saying take out %USERNAME%. That gets generated when I typed in "Users" which is a shared folder. We don't use roaming profiles/home folders. Offline files are enabled. I can't think of anything else useful off the top of my head.
In that pic, the Scope is for Users (Forest > Domain > City > Users). That user is in that OU. The security filtering is Authenticated Users.
gpresult /z shows the policy being applied, but Folder Redirection shows as N/A. No definitions for the folder redirection in there.
I looked in SYSVOL. Found it odd that User Policies aren't defined graphically but things like printer connections showed up as a readable HTML file.
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@scottalanmiller I was thinking more along the lines of the Flying Dutchman, but that works too I guess.
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And what process are you using to generate the path in the first place?
I've always used the Home Folder option in the user properties > Profile tab to create this folder. I'm not sure what what happen if you leave that out, or don't change it to match the new user's name (you mentioned that you changed their name (assuming the account name as well) recently.
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@BBigford said:
@scottalanmiller I was thinking more along the lines of the Flying Dutchman, but that works too I guess.
I thought that at first, but the Last Train is sometimes the better way to go.
