Microsoft KB Archive/911090

= Administrators should pre-create redirected folders before setting the &quot;Grant Exclusive Rights&quot; Folder Redirection policy =

Article ID: 911090

Article Last Modified on 10/30/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit x86)
 * Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition (32-bit x86)
 * Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition (32-bit x86)
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server

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Introduction
Consider the following scenario. As an administrator, you apply the Folder Redirection Group Policy object (GPO) to redirect the My Documents folder of a user to a network share. You apply the GPO on a computer that is running Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 (SP4), a later version of Windows 2000, or Microsoft Windows Server 2003.

In this scenario, if you do not change the Grant the user exclusive rights to  default policy setting, only the user who owns the folder can access this folder and view the contents.

Note The  placeholder represents the folder that you want to redirect.



MORE INFORMATION
If you, as an administrator, want to redirect folders to the same location so that multiple users can view the contents, you should pre-create the folder. However, you must do this before you apply the Folder Redirection policy and disable the Grant the user exclusive rights to  policy setting. This prevents users from being able to pre-create the folder on the server to access the data of other users. For more information about folder redirection, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

288991 Enabling the administrator to have access to redirected folders

272723 Administrator cannot access another user's redirected My Documents folder

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