Migrating Off Roaming Appdata Folder Redirection

[mbrundage]

Hi there, we currently have most of our users setup with roaming appdata in DEM under the folder redirection section. I have noticed a handful of issues with having this in place as things roam in from there in addition to DEM bringing in conflicting files so I have decided to remove this gradually. I created a new folder re-direction without roaming appdata and added conditions on both to ensure those that are part of one groups' AD group doesn't get the re-direction for the other, but it still continues to roam appdata via folder re-direction. Is there a way to accomplish this without removing the roaming appdata from all users at the same time?

[DEMdev · Accepted solution]

Hi @mbrundage,

Does the log file show that DEM still redirects AppData for a user for which this shouldn't happen?

What does the AppData value in key HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders look like in that case? Is it C:\Users\user name\AppData\Roaming, or does it point to the (old) network location? If the latter: Are you by any chance exporting the Shell Folders key with DEM?

[mbrundage]

I figured it out thanks to the debug log. I had a condition statement that was missing a not operator.