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Login stuck at "Applying Folder Redirection policy"

Jo 1 Reputation point
2021-03-08T21:31:42.933+00:00

I have deployed a new Windows 2016 Essentials server into an existing domain and decommissioned the previously installed Windows 2012 Foundation Server. Since then my users are no longer able to log in as the login process is stuck at "Applying Folder Redirection policy" in both Windows 7 and Windows 10 machines. I have disabled our pre-existing Folder Redirection GPO and have configured via the Windows Essential dashboard but this has made no difference. Any help appreciated as this is causing major issues for us at the moment. Thanks.

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  1. Mark Heitbrink 96 Reputation points
    2021-03-11T10:28:14.193+00:00

    Did you had Offline Files enabled? The client tries to move the files from the old target to the new one.

    2 ideas:

    • configure Folder Redir to not move the files, see tab on each folder im GPO
    • reset the CSC Cache / Offline Files Database to remove the old target from sync

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Csc
    DWORD -> FormatDatabase = 1

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-03-10T03:17:10.967+00:00

    Hi，
    Based on my understanding , the group policy issue may caused by the DC issue, since the new DC have a issue with the sysvol replication.
    Did you check the sysvol contents in the new DC?
    Firstly , i would recommend you check if there the old domain controller is present in the domain, if yes, do a metadata cleanup .
    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/identity/ad-ds/deploy/ad-ds-metadata-cleanup
    Best Regards,

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-03-09T01:53:37.697+00:00

    Hi,

    Before going further, would you please tell how many DCs do you have?

    After the promotion and decommission , did you check the domain healthy? Following command for you reference:
    Dcdiag /v >c:\dcdiag1.log
    Repadmin /showrepl >C:\repl.txt
    Repadmin /showreps * 
    Check if the FSMO role is transferred successfully : netdom query fsmo

    If the DC is working well, then we can try to troubleshooting the Group Policy issue.
    If the user account can't logon to the workstation temporarily, we can try to disconnect from the domain and logon with the cached credentials.

    Best Regards,

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