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    Select Group Policy Management From The Tools Dropdown List

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    The document provides instructions for creating a Group Policy Object (GPO) to redirect user folders like Desktop and Documents. It involves: 1. Accessing the Group Policy Management console with appropriate permissions. 2. Creating a new GPO named "Folder Redirect" and configuring folder redirection settings like choosing folders to redirect and specifying the network path. 3. Linking the new GPO to the appropriate domain or OU and forcing an update to apply the policy, requiring users to log out.

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    Select Group Policy Management From The Tools Dropdown List

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    The document provides instructions for creating a Group Policy Object (GPO) to redirect user folders like Desktop and Documents. It involves: 1. Accessing the Group Policy Management console with appropriate permissions. 2. Creating a new GPO named "Folder Redirect" and configuring folder redirection settings like choosing folders to redirect and specifying the network path. 3. Linking the new GPO to the appropriate domain or OU and forcing an update to apply the policy, requiring users to log out.

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    The document provides instructions for creating a Group Policy Object (GPO) to redirect user folders like Desktop and Documents. It involves: 1. Accessing the Group Policy Management console with appropriate permissions. 2. Creating a new GPO named "Folder Redirect" and configuring folder redirection settings like choosing folders to redirect and specifying the network path. 3. Linking the new GPO to the appropriate domain or OU and forcing an update to apply the policy, requiring users to log out.

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    Select Group Policy Management From The Tools Dropdown List

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    The document provides instructions for creating a Group Policy Object (GPO) to redirect user folders like Desktop and Documents. It involves: 1. Accessing the Group Policy Management console with appropriate permissions. 2. Creating a new GPO named "Folder Redirect" and configuring folder redirection settings like choosing folders to redirect and specifying the network path. 3. Linking the new GPO to the appropriate domain or OU and forcing an update to apply the policy, requiring users to log out.

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    Activity No.

    Create Group Policy Object (GPO) for folder redirection (desktop and documents)

    1. The first thing you want to do is to use Server Manager to access the Group Policy

    Management console in an account that has permission to edit Group Policy.

    Select Group Policy Management from the Tools dropdown list.

    2. Next, from the Group Policy Management Console, right-click the Group Policy

    Objects OU and select New. You will be prompted for a name and whether or not you
    want to use an existing template for your new Group Policy. I named mine Folder

    Redirect.

    Note: you can also right-click the domain or OU that you want to link the GPO to, and
    select “Create a GPO in this domain, and link it here.”

    3. After you choose a name, the Group Policy Editor opens. From here, you are going to

    navigate to the Folder Redirection options in User Configuration and choose the folder

    that you want to redirect (User Configuration/Policies/Windows Settings/Folder

    Redirection/Pictures).
    Notice that you can choose from any of the folders that are are default folders for user

    accounts. Right click on the folder, and select Properties.

    User Configuration\Policies\Windows Settings\Folder Redirection\Pictures

    4. At the Properties tab, select the type of redirection and the path to the new folder.

    Here, we are doing a basic redirection, which will redirect all user Pictures folders to the

    same location. The folder we are sending it to is the PicturesRedirect folder on the file
    server ScottFile. Your file path is going to use the

    format: \\hostname\foldername\subfoldername\.

    Note the file path and the example for the individual user.

    5. Apply these changes and you will receive a message informing you that not all folder

    redirection features are available in previous versions of Windows Server. Make note of

    this and click Yes.


    Some features of folder redirection are not backwards-compatible.

    6. Back in the Group Policy Management Console, right click on a domain or OU. From

    here, you can choose Link an Existing GPO and choose the Group Policy Object that

    you just created.


    Link the GPO to the domain.

    7. Now, your new Group Policy should be active, but to make sure that your computer

    applies these settings, force an update with the command line command: gpupdate

    /force

    Notice that in order for this particular policy to take effect, the system will need to log out

    the current user. Choose Yes and wait for the system to sign you out.
    This is forcing an update of Group Policy, which requires the user to sign out for it to
    take effect.

    8. Once you sign back in, you will need to test your redirection. Go to the folder you are

    redirecting and create a new text file.

    9. After that, you’ll need to access the location your folder is being redirected to. Sign in

    to the host that will be hosting your redirection (in this case, it’s our file server ScottFile),

    and find that folder! In the example below, notice that the text file appears in

    the PicturesRedirect folder that you assigned it to.

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