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Exclude My documents on roaming profile

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by josep_m

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On a precedent question:

On a domain with roaming profiles, the folder "My documents" follow the user from Server to Client, and is copied on local folder "Documents and Settings". When the user log off, the files go back to Server.
I want thatthe user can access to his documents on Server, but the files are not copied to local machine.
I have users with 500 MB of files, and the time for log on/log off is too large.
How can obtain this?

And nbcasey@pier1.com answer:

You have twooptions, redirect the folder like the above posts,(user config>windows settings>folder redirection>my docs. Get properties on it and for the settings, choose Basic, for the root path enter "\\server\%username%\my documents" or whatever fits your setup. The second choice is user config>administrative templates>system>logon/logoff>Exclude directories in roaming profile. Enable it and enter in My Documents. The policy could be found in user config>admin templates>system>user profiles if you used the XP tools to build the policy.

I have a problem: some users are OK (they change "My documents" to server folder) but some others not! All the users are into OU

Why happen this?

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by john boy

Have seen this on my domain and I think that it is one of two things.
1. The My Pictures folder has very tight security and often causes redirection to fail as it is inside of My Docs. Make sure it follows the My Docs folder as well.

2. Make sure that you untick the option to give users sole access to their My Docs when you configure redirection.

You could also try forcing an update of group policy by typing in the start run or command prompt.

Cant remember the exact syntax. Somethinglike:

refresh_policy_local_machine........
and
refresh_policy_local_user.......

Check help for these commands

Good luck

John-Boy

by amedee

Indeed, you have to uncheck the case as described above. ("2. Make sure that you untick the option to give users sole access to their My Docs when you configure redirection.")

The correct syntax for forcing an policy update is:

secedit /refreshpolicy user_policy /enforce

Good luck!

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