Posted in Best Practice hotfix Tip

Disappearing Folder Redirection Issues with Windows 7

Thanks to a tip off from fellow MVP Darren Mar-Elia about fairly common issues with Folder Redirection in Windows 7. In short there is a pretty significant issue in Folder Redirection if configured incorrectly that could result in a loss of data for users. There is a mitigation of this issues however this is broken in Windows 7 Service Pack…

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Posted in ScreenCast Video

See me talk about Group Policy on TechNet Edge.

On my recent trip to the Microsoft MVP Summit I was able to catch up with Rick Claus and record an episode of TechNet Edge. In this video do some quick deep dives into Group Policy with Windows 8. So sit back and watch the very informative video embedded below…

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Posted in Best Practice Tutorials

How to configure Roaming Profiles and Folder Redirection

Read Me First: If you are using Folder Redirection with Windows 7 in your organisation then I would definitely recommend that you check my other blog post about a pretty nasty Folder redirection bug and how to fix it at  Disappearing Folder Redirection Issues with Windows 7 Update: I have new blog post that describes the new “Primary Computer” feature in…

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Posted in KB Focus

KB978098 Focus: Large “Folder Redirection” issue

Microsoft recently released KB978098 which explains an issues with folder redirection when using the Advanced folder redirection setting (see image below). The advanced setting of this policy is used when you want to redirect users to different locations based on security group location. This is a very helpful if you have a large number of users in the same site…

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