{"id":1293,"date":"2015-11-13T01:11:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T01:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbsolutions.com\/projects\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2022-02-03T11:24:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T17:24:35","slug":"how-to-setup-a-successful-roaming-profile-and-folder-redirection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbsolutions.com\/projects\/how-to-setup-a-successful-roaming-profile-and-folder-redirection\/","title":{"rendered":"How to setup a successful roaming profile and folder redirection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I have this blog that is supposed to help me find bookmarks for past projects so I can redo stuff quickly &#8211; but it only works if you use it. I didn&#8217;t and I had to relearn the steps WHICH DID NOT WORK. So luckily &#8211; 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&#8217;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&#8217;t<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> [UPDATE: It did work &#8211; the GPO settings didn&#8217;t save &#8211; that was the root cause]<\/span> <\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0 but I didn&#8217;t follow it to a T because I didn&#8217;t want some of those features (they were optional .. or were they) . So &#8211; like a mac, there is no save button &#8211; but the setting&#8217;s didn&#8217;t take for some reason. So &#8211; never assume it took &#8211; double check. <a href=\"http:\/\/m.windowsnetworking.com\/articles-tutorials\/windows-server-2008\/Top-10-Reasons-Why-Group-Policy-Fails-to-Apply-Part1.html\">I also found 10 reasons GPO fails<\/a> &#8211; mine was reason#11 &#8211; &#8220;it didn&#8217;t save&#8221;. I had 2 of them today that did this on Server 2012 &#8211; but i know to hit F5 to refresh the summary page now to see if it took.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>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 &#8211; just follow those instructions) :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?q=activate+roamin+profiles+2012&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;channel=fflb&amp;gfe_rd=cr&amp;ei=QVw4Vb2JOIzz8wep64CABQ#rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;channel=fflb&amp;q=activate+roaming+profiles+2012&amp;spell=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google search on &#8220;activate roamin profiles&#8221; (note the sp mistake): <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=usqq8wZn_Dg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You tube Video Setting Up Roaming Profiles in Windows Server 2012<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/filecab\/archive\/2012\/03\/30\/configuring-primary-computers-for-folder-redirection-and-roaming-profiles-in-windows-server-8-beta.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Technet blog <\/a>&#8220;THe Storage Team at Microsoft &#8211; File Cabinet Blog&#8221;\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/filecab\/archive\/2012\/03\/30\/configuring-primary-computers-for-folder-redirection-and-roaming-profiles-in-windows-server-8-beta.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Configuring Primary Computers for Folder Redirection and Roaming Profiles in Windows Server \u201c8\u201d Beta<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?q=2012+is+roaming+profiles+best+practice&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;channel=fflb&amp;gfe_rd=cr&amp;ei=lGs4VaKmMImVzAKIu4DoDQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Back to Google &#8220;2012 is roaming profiles best practice&#8221;<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/social.technet.microsoft.com\/forums\/windowsserver\/en-US\/92b6a5c8-b3b7-4de2-8e15-ace2f0d0c3ec\/roaming-profiles-best-practices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roaming Profiles best practices (Microsoft Technet)<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/cc784484%28v=WS.10%29.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Best Practices for User Profiles<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/library\/hh801901.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2012<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?q=2012+is+roaming+profiles+best+practice&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;channel=fflb&amp;gfe_rd=cr&amp;ei=lGs4VaKmMImVzAKIu4DoDQ#rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;channel=fflb&amp;q=2012+is+roaming+profile+a+good+idea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Back to Google again &#8220;2012 is roaming profile a good idea&#8221;<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/community.spiceworks.com\/topic\/241279-roaming-profile-vs-redirected-folders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roaming Profile vs redirected folders Spiceworks.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>At this point there are no more links &#8211; and it does work &#8211; so &#8230; 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.<\/li>\n<li>WHAT I WOULD DO DIFFERENT &#8230; 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 &#8220;mac-like&#8221; which is it is automagically added. That is my fault &#8211; not Windows the GPO should be applied to a different group.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is a link to a guy who makes sense, but due to my not following things precicely like he did &#8211; 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 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfu.ca\/ad\/roaming_profiles.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">so this is a super link<\/a>!! I will update this once I get things working. Also &#8211; he mentioned that you have to log on to each computer and set 2 env. vars &#8211; well here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.morgantechspace.com\/2013\/10\/add-environment-variable-via-group.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">another article that sets them via GPO<\/a> so you don&#8217;t have to. <a href=\"http:\/\/elbsolutions.com\/projects\/enable-screensaver-via-group-policy-object-gpo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I also wanted to set the screensaver via GPO<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I have this blog that is supposed to help me find bookmarks for past projects so I can redo stuff quickly &#8211; but it only works if you use it. 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