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#Microsoft remote desktop 10 folder redirection update
#Microsoft remote desktop 10 folder redirection windows

Now, MS are aware of this and have a policy that prevents this happening namely: Now, since the old and new locations are the same, step 2 never really happens and step 3 results in all the files being deleted! Delete the files from the old location (as that essentially is what a move is).Copy the files from the old location to the new location.

#Microsoft remote desktop 10 folder redirection update

Update the registry to reflect the new location.

When this is enabled the engine does the following: Well, the issue is with the ‘Move contents to new location’ flag. The bottom line is the folder re-direction engine deleted my files! Why? There can be numerous reason why different paths would resolve to the dame location (load balancing, DFS, segregated networks etc.) and I won’t go into them here. The issue is that in this case, \\server1\username and \\server2\username actually resolve to the same location. We encountered this issue and it caused us significant data loss (which fortunately we were able to recover).

You check the locations \\server1\username and \\server2\username and find they are empty!.

This policy also has the flag ‘Move contents to new location’ enabled

You then change this policy or apply another policy that re-directs this folder to \\server2\username.

You apply this policy and the users registry is updated to reflect the path.

This policy has the flag ‘Move contents to new location’ enabled.

You apply a policy that re-directs the Documents folder to say \\server1\username.

#Microsoft remote desktop 10 folder redirection windows

Windows 2008 R2 Standard RDS Servers with no SPīasically, to cut a long story short, there is a known issue with folder re-direction that can cause data loss.Hope everyone finds it useful!īeen having an interesting time with Folder re-direction on Windows 2008 r2 so thought I’d share my experience here in case anyone else encounters the same issue. I figured it was worthwhile to re-post it here for everyone’s benefit. One of the members of my gptalk mailing list posted this very informative email today regarding some issues he encountered with Folder Redirection.