Hi,  
  
Trying to redirect the My Documents folders, thought I had it working but  
  
now realize it only works for some.  
  
Here's what I've set:  
  
Setting:  Basic (Redirect everyone's folder to the same location)  
  
Path: \\%HOMESHARE%%HOMEPATH% (set Target folder location to: Redirect to  
  
the user's home directory)  
  
Grant user exclusive rights to My Documents: Disabled  
  
Move the contents of My Documents to the new location: Disabled  
  
Policy Removal Behavior: Leave contents  
  
Do not automatically make redirected folders available offline: Enabled  
  
GPO Status: Enabled  
  
Linked OU: container with all the user records  
  
Security Filtering: Authenticated Users  
  
This works for some of my users but not all and I get the following  
  
application event errors:  
  
Event ID: 101  
  
Source: Folder Redirection  
  
Description: Failed to perform redirection of folder My Documents.  The new  
  
directories for the redirected folder could not be created.  The folder is  
  
configured to be redirected to \\%HOMESHARE%%HOMEPATH%, the final expanded  
  
path was \\%HOMESHARE%%HOMEPATH%.  The following error occured:  
  
The specified path is invalid.  
  
Event ID: 1000  
  
Source: Userenv  
  
Description:  
  
The Group Policy client-side extension Folder Redirection was passed flags  
  
(0) and returned a failure status code of (161).  
  
Event ID: 1000  
  
Source: Userenv  
  
Description:  
  
Windows cannot process extension Folder Redirection ProcessGroupPolicy.  
  
Return value (0xa1)  
  
I don't know, I've been all over the system looking at folder rights and  
  
user properties.  Everything looks good but some how isn't working.  Any  
  
theories?  
  
Any help is greatly appreciated.  
  
Thanks,  
  
Linn

Howdy Linn!  
  
Linn Kubler wrote:  
  
You need to specify a UNC-path. Environmental variables won't work:  
  
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=321805  
  
cheers,  
  
Florian  
  
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eMail: Vorname [bei] frickelsoft [Punkt] net.

Thanks for the response Florian.  Guess I'm still confused.  When I edit the  
  
policy, on the My Documents Properties page, on the Target tab I set the  
  
setting as "Basic - Redirect everyone's folder to the same location".  The  
  
Target Folder Location is set to "Redirect to the user's home directory".  I  
  
don't see a place where I can specify a UNC-path.  The environment variables  
  
I reported from the event log are put there by Windows, not me.  
  
From the KB article you sent me I don't know how I'd set this up then.  In  
  
my account properties, on the Profile tab I set home folder to Connect: H:  
  
To: \\servername\username$.  A hidden share of the users home directory.  
  
The article suggests setting the policy to \\servername\sharename but I  
  
don't see how I can do this when all of my users have unique share names.  
  
What am I missing?  
  
Thanks,  
  
Linn  
  
"Florian Frommherz" <florian@frickelsoft.PLEASELEAVETHISOUT.net> wrote in  
  
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Howdy Linn!  
  
Linn Kubler wrote:  
  
If you select "Create a folder for each user in the path" (or s.th.  
  
equivalent to that) instead of "Redirect to the users' home directory",  
  
you can specify a UNC-path, where windows shall put the files.  
  
If I remember this right, windows creates the full path itself. If you  
  
type "\\servername\share$" it should say something like: "Example:  
  
\\servername\share$\Fred\My Documents". (Sorry, I have only got a german  
  
windows).  
  
You could try to redirect all the user's folders to  
  
"\\servername\share$", where the user's homedirectories lie and let  
  
windows create the subfolders ("..\Fred\My Documents").  
  
cheers,  
  
Florian  
  
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Nachwuschsadmin aus dem Süddeutschen/Germany.  
  
eMail: Vorname [bei] frickelsoft [Punkt] net.

"Florian Frommherz" <florian@frickelsoft.PLEASELEAVETHISOUT.net> wrote in  
  
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I was afraid you were going to suggest this.  My main concern with this  
  
approach is that this system was setup before I started working here.  I'm  
  
not 100% sure that all the usernames match their home directory names.  Or  
  
maybe that doesn't matter?  Is Windows smart enough to map that correctly?  
  
I'm mostly worried that I have missmatched user name and home directory  
  
folder names, you know in the case were someone gets married or divorced.  
  
Thanks,  
  
Linn