I have had Folder Redirection (Documents, Pictures, Music, Videos, and Favorites) working fine for years now in an environment with a 2008 file server (no DFS) and mixed Vista/Win7 clients. I recently moved the top-level share for the redirected folders to a different 2008 R2 server and simpyl changed the servername in the GPO accordingly.
The issue is that not every existing user profile on every machine will pick up the change. I have been logging in to 8 different machines with five different user accounts and cannot find a pattern. On the clients that were recently in-place upgraded from Vista Business to Win7 Pro, a couple of accounts get the new setting but most accounts do not. On the clients that are clean installs of Win7, most accounts get the new settings but some do not.
I have tried checking "Enforced" for the GPO, I have tried running GPUpdate /force and rebooting. I have tried editing the shell folders entries in HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer and rebooting. It doesn't make sense. Both the new and old UNC share paths are accessible from a run command for the affected users. I have the option to "Grant user exclusive rights to Documents" de-selected in the GPO.
If I delete the user profile, then it picks up the right settings but that's not a pretty option when we're talking about 25 users who roam around and use 25 different computers randomly. To fix it that way reliably I would have to wipe out everyone's profile on every machine and possibly restore documents from backup. Any other ideas?
MCITP:Enterprise Admin (Vista/2008), MCSA/MCSE (2003/XP), MCDBA (2000)