Re: Folder Redirection of Start Menu on Win 2003 not happening

I ran RSOP and saw that the policy was not being applied. I think, I may have
found the reason for the issue. I've been using my Vista workstation to run
GPMC and to create my GPOs. I decided to install GPMC on the TS and take a
look there. I opened the GPO and viewed the Settings in the right pane and
saw that there was an error with the Folder Redirection. It said "The
following errors were encountered:

The file
"\\myserver.domain.com\SysVol\domain.com\Policies\{9B9D0715-4206-47F4-8964-31C77A801FBD}\User\Documents
& Settings\fdeploy.ini" is not in a valid format. Details: Object reference
not set to an instance of an object."

I may have corrupted this one somehow in Vista. I'll have to see what
happens if I recreate the policy.

--
Sandy Wood
Orange County District Attorney


"Jeff Pitsch" wrote:

Have you run RSOP to make sure that the policy has applied properly?
Don't forget to create a programs folder (just like you would see in a
normal start menu) and don't forget that you will need to do more than
just redirect to get rid of certain common programs. You'll have to use
Group Policy under Start Menu and Taskbar to get rid of common programs.
Oh and are there any event log entries on the server when the user
logs in?

Jeff Pitsch
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Services

Sandy Wood wrote:
I've put together a new Win 2003 TS and have just configured Folder
Redirection for a Start Menu. On my TS, I created a folder on the D: drive
called TSmenu and copied the shortcuts for Word 2007 and Outlook 2007 from
the All Users profile.

I configured the Start Menu setting as "Basic - Redirect everyone's folder
to the same location". The Target folder location is set to "Redirect to the
following location" and the Root Path is \\myserver\TSmenu, which is shared
with the share defaults. When I login with a test user account, nothing
changes, when I click Programs is still see IE, Outlook Express, Remote
Assistance, Accessories and Startup. No trace of my two shortcuts.

Have I missed a step?

.

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