Re: Folder Redirection stops if users not local admins

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From: Gary Mudgett [MSFT] (garymu_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/13/04 

Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 15:02:59 -0400

What comes to mind is that the user doesn't have registry permissions to
update the profile information.

Are these mandatory profiles? If so then the profile needs to be created as
documented in the following article:
307800 HOW TO: Assign a Mandatory User Profile in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=307800 

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Windows 2000/2003 Directory Services
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"Steve Cole" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2af4b01c46873$b038d9a0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> All,
>
> I'm having a problem removing users from the local admins
> group on their XP Pro desktops - if I do, they can't load
> their roaming profiles & folder redirection will not
> work.  This is on a very generic, 40 node Win2k3 domain &
> folder redirection is the only policy setting in the
> default domain GPO.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> When removed from the local Admin group they get these
> errors:
>
> Event Type: Error
> Event Source: Folder Redirection
> Event Category: None
> Event ID: 111
> Date: 2004/07/12
> Time: 7:20:22 PM
> User:
> Computer: ZPKXV7
> Description:
> Unable to apply folder redirection policy, initialization
> failed.
>
> Event Type: Error
> Event Source: Userenv
> Event Category: None
> Event ID: 1085
> Date: 2004/07/12
> Time: 7:20:22 PM
> User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
> Computer: ZPKXV7
> Description:
> The Group Policy client-side extension Folder Redirection
> failed to execute. Please look for any errors reported
> earlier by that extension.
>

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