And just a couple of other thoughts from issues we've seen over the years and found during testing:
1) Don't try to redirect different users' folders to the same location 2) Folder redirection REQUIRES the users have full control in the location, it doesn't work with modify 3) File and folder ownership can be an issue, there are also some GPO options that can help with that. We redirect everything except for appdata and also use DFS. No 2016 yet besides testing, but we have Windows 7, 8.1, and 10 clients. I'm not sure how many people do redirect appdata now, but way back in the day during testing we found it put quite a lot of additional burden on the servers and slowed down local application access, so we chose not to do it. If anyone has any modern experience with redirecting appdata I'd love to hear your experiences. -Bonnie From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 6:51 AM To: New NT System Admin List ([email protected]) <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Folder Redirect What do the event logs say when the GPO folder redirection fails? The gpo for "prevent user from changing My Documents path" can interfere with folder redirection, but that would generally be a different behaviour to what you're seeing. Sent from my slightly schizophrenic, but rather cool, BlackBerry Android From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: 20 April 2017 2:45 p.m. To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Reply to: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [NTSysADM] Folder Redirect We are in the process of deploying folder redirects and we can't seem to get it working for all users. The issue is that it works fine for the first user that logs onto the system but no other user will work on that same device. Some background on the environment. We are running two DC with server 2016 running active directory at 2016 functional leave. Our clients are all Windows 10. The file share is also server 2016 DFS.
