Folder Redirection on client Windows 10 machine

Question

Dear All,
I would like to re-direct the Desktop, Downloads, Documents ... folders on client machine into the partition drive within the client machine... Is there anyway that I can set a GPO to work on this ?

Thanks

Answer 1

Hello

Thank you for your question and reaching out. I can understand you are having query related to Folder redirection.

Jnctions (also called symbolic links or reparse points) allows you to do that. You can use mklink in the command prompt (with /D for directory) to create them:

mklink /D C:\Source D:\Source
This will be transparent to applications - that is they will see it as a regular folder.

Reference:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/redirecting-a-folder-path-to-another-drive/ed83a0f8-fff6-49dd-ae65-ef289e53d426

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Answer 2

Hello @Edwald Neo ,

Thank you for posting here.

Q: I would like to re-direct the Desktop, Downloads, Documents ... folders on client machine into the partition drive within the client machine.

We can use the following user policy.

User Configuration\Policies\Windows Settings\Folder Redirection\UserProfileFolderName

For more information, please refer to link below.
Using Folder Redirection in Group Policy
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2012-r2-and-2012/dn789199(v=ws.11)

Hope the information above is helpful.

Best Regards,
Daisy Zhou

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