Folder Redirection and Roaming Profiles

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From: David (dcarroll_at_nospam-jscc.edu)
Date: 05/21/04


Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 11:32:37 -0700

Eureka!

I had to add My Documents and Desktop to the policy -
User/Admin Temp/System/User Profiles:Exclude directories
in roaming profile.

David
>-----Original Message-----
>I have enabled roaming profiles and folder redirection
>for Desktop and My Documents for a particular OU. The
>roaming profile cache is deleted at logoff.
>
>I thought everything was working fine, until we tried
>tried to delete any object (file/folder) in either of
the
>redirected folders. You can delete an object, but when
>you logoff and logon, the object comes back.
>
>Creating an object works as expected - the object is
>created in the redirected location. The user logs off.
>The user logs on, and all of the contents of the
>redirected folders are copied to the local profile
>cache. The user then deletes the object, which deletes
>it in the redirected location. The object still exists
>in the local profile cache. On logoff, the local profile
>is merged with the roaming profile, copying the local
>objects to the server. On next logon, the user receives
>the objects that they believed they had deleted.
>
>The version of fpdeploy.dll is 5.1.2600.1106 with a
>timestamp of 8/29/2002 7:00am.
>
>MS KB 827079 doesn't directly address my issue, but does
>indicate there is a newer version of fpdeploy.dll.
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
>us;827079&Product=winxp
>
>Can someone please help?
>
>Thanks,
>David
>.
>



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