So I have this blog that is supposed to help me find bookmarks for past projects so I can redo stuff quickly – but it only works if you use it. I didn’t and I had to relearn the steps WHICH DID NOT WORK. So luckily – the history of the machine where I did it still had all the links. Here are the pages that worked. When I figure out what is different between the one that worked that the one that didn’t I will re-blog it in this article. Here is a dump of the links that worked. At the bottom was the one that didn’t [UPDATE: It did work – the GPO settings didn’t save – that was the root cause] – but I didn’t follow it to a T because I didn’t want some of those features (they were optional .. or were they) . So – like a mac, there is no save button – but the setting’s didn’t take for some reason. So – never assume it took – double check. I also found 10 reasons GPO fails – mine was reason#11 – “it didn’t save”. I had 2 of them today that did this on Server 2012 – but i know to hit F5 to refresh the summary page now to see if it took.
Links to items that worked last June listed in order that worked (items at the bottom worked too as of the update of this blog article – just follow those instructions) :
- Google search on “activate roamin profiles” (note the sp mistake):
- You tube Video Setting Up Roaming Profiles in Windows Server 2012
- Technet blog “THe Storage Team at Microsoft – File Cabinet Blog”
- Back to Google “2012 is roaming profiles best practice”
- Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2012
- Back to Google again “2012 is roaming profile a good idea”
- At this point there are no more links – and it does work – so … I wish I blogged properly that day but it was late at night and I wanted to go home. Somewhere in there is the correct answer.
- WHAT I WOULD DO DIFFERENT … is apply this Domain\Users so that any new users would automatically addded. About 3 months later, I added a new user and forgot to add this user to the group I had created. This group was a simple group that was set up explicitly for folder redirection. I forgot about this group and noticed that that user was NOT having his folders redirected. Now I will not forget, but it is something you have to remember instead of it being “mac-like” which is it is automagically added. That is my fault – not Windows the GPO should be applied to a different group.
Here is a link to a guy who makes sense, but due to my not following things precicely like he did – it does not work. HE GOT HIS TO WORK and it looks like he has re-used his recipe with success. I like how he explains things – so this is a super link!! I will update this once I get things working. Also – he mentioned that you have to log on to each computer and set 2 env. vars – well here is another article that sets them via GPO so you don’t have to. I also wanted to set the screensaver via GPO.