Folder Redirection

I have been testing a laptop with a clean install of Vista Ultimate Edition
that was previously loaded XP. The laptop is on our Windows 2K3 domain (was
also on domain when running XP). When the laptop was running XP a user
account was setup in AD Users and Computers with the atribute to redirect the
user's My Documents folder to a server share using a mapped drive letter. No
changes were made on the server side to the user's profile before logging
onto Vista. Upon logging into the Vista machine with the user's credentials
folder redirection does not seem to be working. Under the
c:\users\%username% directory in Vista there seems to be a few folders that
say "Access Denied" I try to open them. I have also removed the user's
folder from the share on the server and logged onto the Vista box in hopes
that a new folder would be created, which wasn't the case.

Basically I am needing to see folder redirection work on Vista as it did
flawlessly on XP.

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:10:05 -0700, Jeff
<> wrote:

>I have been testing a laptop with a clean install of Vista Ultimate Edition
>that was previously loaded XP. The laptop is on our Windows 2K3 domain (was
>also on domain when running XP). When the laptop was running XP a user
>account was setup in AD Users and Computers with the atribute to redirect the
>user's My Documents folder to a server share using a mapped drive letter. No
>changes were made on the server side to the user's profile before logging
>onto Vista. Upon logging into the Vista machine with the user's credentials
>folder redirection does not seem to be working. Under the
>c:\users\%username% directory in Vista there seems to be a few folders that
>say "Access Denied" I try to open them. I have also removed the user's
>folder from the share on the server and logged onto the Vista box in hopes
>that a new folder would be created, which wasn't the case.
>
>Basically I am needing to see folder redirection work on Vista as it did
>flawlessly on XP.

New phrase in Vista: junction points. This was done under the phony
"security" label. In brief, some folders older applications may have
depended on existing now are only phantom folders. This allows Vista
to trick some applications into thinking they have the same old
elevated rights they had under XP, but in fact are now running as a
standard user. So folder redirection is now more tricky.

"Adam Albright" <> wrote in message
news:...
> New phrase in Vista: junction points. This was done under the phony
> "security" label. In brief, some folders older applications may have
> depended on existing now are only phantom folders. This allows Vista
> to trick some applications into thinking they have the same old
> elevated rights they had under XP, but in fact are now running as a
> standard user. So folder redirection is now more tricky.
>

There have been Junction Points since Windows 2000. It's just Vista
introduces more functionality, as symbolic links, which can point to other
file systems (Unix).

ss.