Hi everyone,
We are currently doing a user migration at my company and the folder redirection to desktop is not kicking in as quickly as it should be. Here are some points I want to make:
- The group policy on the new domain has been set up to redirect to the proper locations.
- All accounts in the new domain have been prestaged prior to exchange mailbox disconnection.
- I do a gpupdate /force command and reboot with every user after mailboxes have been reconnected.
- I make sure the users and their computers are in the proper OUs before the gpupdate /force.
I know that group policy usually refreshes about every 15 minutes or so but this issue of icons not showing up on users desktops is slightly annoying. It does eventually go though but it’s been taking DAYS. My band-aid solution to this has been to simply create a shortcut icon to the user’s respective redirected folder. I have also instructed the user NOT to save anything on their desktop for the time being because once the folder redirection occurs, it will blow away anything that was saved to desktop. Finally, I want to add that old domain can be best described as a tangled mess hence the reason why we are doing the migration in the first place. Anyone have any thoughts?