Re: W2008: new location for folder redirection does not work

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"Meinolf Weber [MVP-DS]" wrote:

Hello Kian,

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Meinolf Weber
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I can see that your answer forces me to go a little deeper... maybe i
should have done that in the first run but here goes the historie:

Once upon a time we used to emulate Windows 2003 as a DC together with
a few other servers. At that time the DC-servar was called, lets say,
server-01 Along with the economic crisis alot more customers wanted us
to create them a new website and the company expanded a little. As
always the system administration doesnt get much value... but finally
i knocked my fist in the table and spittingly asked for more servers.
I got permission to go shopping-nutch at dell.com and i bought two new
servers.

What is an "emulated" 2003 DC? Please clarify.

Using VMWare... you know - like HyperV just another app for doing almost the
same... so we had a powerful server vmware-ing two servers - one of them was
this Windows 2003 DC.


One of the new servers was to take over the DC-role from the emulated
W2003.
So i installed W2008 and wanted to overtake the AD by joining to the
forrest. I never got that up working - a DNS-error comlpicated the
process
and i ended up starting from the beginning building a new DC. I
thought that
keeping the old emulated DC's name might be a good idea - so that the
clients
and the other servers didnt go gaga. I had a hard job emigrating the
Document
and Settings\<user>-folder on all the clients - the clients had to
join a new
server though the domain name was the same as before. But i finally
tweaked
it and all the users kept their program settings locally.

Well, normally it is an simple step to add a 2008 server to a 2003 domain
and promote it as additional DC. A DNS error should be solvedwith not that
much effort. Anyway, so you created a new forest with the same name as the
old one, join all client's to the new domain, created new domain user accounts
etc. etc.? Then you copied the content from c:\document and settings\username
to the new created profile c:\document and settings\username.new?

thats what everyone keeps telling me :) - about the simplicity Although i
spend more than 75 hours on six days from start to end - about 40 hours of
trying to demote. Then 30-or-something on starting up a new enviroment
including finding a way how to export/import all the users on clients.
Bascially your right in your 'copy content' but it isnt that easy because of
owner rights and such.
But yes! youre right what youre saying.


So now i would really like to change the new DCs name. It still has
the old
name from th eemulated one and it just dosnt make sense keeping that
name -
mostly because it reflects that the server is a emulated one (which it
isnt
anymore).

I think renaming the DC will not solve your problem with the clients, when
you go the steps i assmued above the profiles are poiting to the old server
becasue of the profile copying from old domain to new domain.

When you say 'copy' there might be a chance that you misunderstood. I
haven't copied anything on the DC level. The new DC is shinny new. I had to
create all the users and join all the computers to the new AD (and the new,
'same', architecture - you know - OU's and user groups). No settings has been
copied from the old DC to the new, except for all the users My
Document-folder (which is just a bunch of files). So no settings copy
there... (which gave me serious problems on the client side becaase the
client computers wasnt joined in the new DC, meaning that i would have to
unjoin all clients from the old domain, joining the new domain. When thats
done, signing in with an account created a new folder in Documents and
Settings. So i had to figure out how to copy old data (from the old Documents
and Settings folder) to the new folder in Documents and Settings, keeping in
mind that owner rights and stuff will be a problem... but i made it - its
about 10 steps including some reboots, and pulling out network cable)



So the name should be changed!
And to answer your questions:

Offline folders? isnt that just the same as Folder Redirection?

Folder redirection does just that, folders such as My Documents, Application
Data, Desktop, etc., are redirected to a server folder.

Offline files is sometimes used in conjunction with this (or without), but
isn't the same thing - it creates a local sync'd copy of that data on the
hard drive. They are often used for mobile users.


Hmmm... but i know that sometimes offline files are created on the clients
(usually when the network is down or something - but i just thought it was a
part of the deal enabling Folder Redirection. But from what youre saying i've
enabled offline files too?


The
only GPO
i have applied is Folder Direction > Documents. Setting the properties
to
Basic - Redirect everyone's folder.... bla bla bla, and Create a
folder for
each user under the root path, and Root path: \\[new or old server
path]\mydocuments$
In the Settings-tab i have enabled the two first checkboxes, the third
is
not checked. Under Policy Removal i have marked the first option. And
thats
about it... i have no more settings related to Folder
Redirection/Synch
As for your next question about permission: since the path is intact -
nothing has changed but the server-name the permissions are also the
same meaning that the clients still keeps their permissions... so
nothing changed. The folder the clients uses, is still the same and i
havent moved or copied anything (just a backup to make sure)...


So... i know this is getting puzzled. But when it all boils down i still
dont understand why changing the GPO setting that controls the path to Folder
Redirection isnt enough to redirect foldershare to a new location...


.

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