AGPM ate my folder redirection!

[barryb]

Hi Guys,

I imported my Vista User policy into AGPM and it appeares to strip out all my Folder redirection settings!

Running the latest version of AGPM, thank the gods for backups!

Any ideas? I wonder what else it could be stripping out?

Cheers,

Barry

[PreviousPoster]

Were you able to reproduce this problem in a test environment?

[barryb]

Hi,

Thanks for the answer, yes I checked my Test environment and it is the same.

I had went into Change Control > Uncontrolled and selected Control on my User Policy with folder redirection.

When I go into Controlled and run a Settings HTML report it shows no Folder Redirection, at this point the environment is OK as I have not deployed the Controlled GPO.

Once the Controlled GPO is deployed the settings are overwritten and lost.

If I right click the Controlled GPO and select Import from Production (after restoring the production GPO) the Folder redirection is also lost.

Any suggestions are welcome.

Regards,

Barry

P.S. We have also contacted MS about this and I will post any reply they give.

[barryb]

Hi Guys,

it appears the problem is down to AGPM not recognising the ini file for the Vista folder redirection, Vista names the ini file fdeploy1.ini.

I figure this must be so that Group Policy can distinguish between 2000/XP redirection and Vista redirection which has extra options.

So the best work around is to have your Vista folder redirection as a separate policy and only edit it via the Vista MMC snap-in, not via AGPM.

If I get any other information I will post.

Cheers,

Barry

[barryb]

Hi,

One other workaround is to have AGPM Server installed on a dedicated Vista Desktop, with the console on a different Vista box, this should allow the folder redirection to function correctly (as it is running on Vista not 2003)

Or do one of the following,

as I suggested below and split away folder redirection,

wait until the next version of AGPM,

or run the AGPM on Server 2008.....

None of which I have tested as I am splitting the Folder redirection to a dedicated policy.

Good Luck!

Cheers,

Barry