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by mdfreeman

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I have a client who has had three different people handle the IT in the past. It is a MESS. Now they have contracted with the company I work for to administer their network, I'm the lucky sap who gets to straighten things out. They have a 2003 Server Small Biz system running XP Pro clients. The folder redirection was done through group policy and I want to reverse the Application Data redirection as it is causing users with Firefox to have some really screwy problems. Removing the policy does nothing, even after doing a "gpupdate /force". How can I redirect this folder?

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by cg it

From Microsoft Technet under can't remove redirection settings question.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/en-us/management/manage_faq.mspx

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Remove the GPO with this policy in it. The GPO will then "fall out of scope" and Folder Redirection will redirect back to the local profile if you have that option set.

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Set the redirection path for the folder to be %userprofile%\Folder_Name, where 'Folder_Name' is the name of the redirected folder (such as My Documents). Folder Redirection will then "redirect" the folder back to the local profile.

by mdfreeman

I found that same page on TechNet and tried #2, there was an error message that the path was invalid. I did not try option 1 because this would cause all of the redirections to reverse and there is a massive amount of data in the My Documents folder. It may be my only hope, though, so unless there are any other suggestions, I'll try it.

by cg it

That's all I can think of that would still make the GPO effects apparent to the user. [The GPO still is in effect or it's disabled which leaves the redirection path intact.]

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