Yes, that "bug/feature" was introduced with Vista. The folder does not actually get renamed but when you view the folder listing within Windows Explorer, Windows digs into each directory to read the desktop.ini file to see if it should display the folder with an alternate name.
I agree, it was a bummer to have to put in a hack, but what I decided to do was have a scheduled task that goes through those home folders each night and makes sure that all staff are full control denied access to desktop.ini. It probably makes my backups not backup that file but who cares. Anyway, that fix has worked for us for over a year and I can't imagine the headache of getting rid of folder redirection at this point. We'd have so many people lose files it'd be ridiculous. Curtis McKay Network Administrator Belleville Township High School District 201 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rick Lawsha Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 10:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [tech-geeks] Windows 7 Folder Redirection and GPO We had a problem of slow logins and home folders being renamed. Any student who was running Windows 7 was subject to a group policy that redirected the My Documents folder to their home folder which was on a centrally located SAN. The student home folder was also mapped to drive letter J. This worked okay until recently. When we started rolling out Windows 7 labs we noticed that student home folders which were named with the student ID were being renamed to My Documents. Teachers were having a hard time finding student work because all folders were named the same! Searching the web led us to various hacks and work arounds but the solution for us was to stop redirecting the My Documents folder. Students now are instructed to save files to the J drive which is available to them on any computer they use to login. It appears this problem (or feature) was around since Vista days but we skipped that OS for the most part so we didn't notice this bug. Fixes involved making desktop.ini read only, remapping the redirected folder to a subfolder, and registry hacks, none of which appealed to us. ________________________________ This electronic mail is copyrighted by Community Unit School District #205, Galesburg, Illinois USA. Unauthorized dissemination or duplication of it is prohibited. Violators of copyright/confidentiality laws may be prosecuted.
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