Folder Redirection Issue

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Folder Redirection Issue

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I have a company that we moved from a windows 2012 server to a windows 2022 server. I copied the redirected folders over with this command

"e:\path\files" "\servername\path\files" /e /copyall /r:0 /w:0 /b /xo

I then attempted to change the GPO to redirect the users to the new server and that did not work. So i created a new GPO with the same settings and disabled the old one. That also did not update the redirections. Tried gpupdate /force and that did not work.

So i manually went to this registry path and updated everything that was pointing to the old server to the new server.

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

I thought this worked until a user reported to me that they could not save anything to their desktop saying they don't have permissions to do so. But if they go directly to where their desktop is being redirected to on the server they can open and save just fine. As a temporary fix I've created a mapped drive to this path.

If you need more information i would be happy to give it. Thank you in advance!

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Answer 1

Hello

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community forum.

You should redirect user folders back to their local machine and then redirect to new server.

Here is a thread with steps that you can redirect user folders back to their local machine.

how to remove Server Folders and demote DC - Microsoft Q&A

I hope the information above is helpful.

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Daisy Zhou

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