How to change usernames without to mess up folder redirection
Hi, we are using folder redirection: \\server\share\%username% Now we have to change some of the usernames. After login, we find event id "502" from source "folder redirection" in the eventlog and the files and folders are not moved to the new location: Redirect options=0x80001009 The following error occurred: "Failed to copy files from "\\server\share\oldusername\desktop" to "\\server\share\newsusername\desktop". Error details: "This file is currently not available for use on this computer. The permission on the server is set to recommendations in the windows 7 ressource kit (page 563): CREATOR OWNER – Full Control (Apply to: Subfolders And Files Only) System – Full Control (Apply to: This Folder, Subfolders, And Files) Domain Admins – Full Control (Apply to: This Folder, Subfolders, And Files) (This option is required only if you want administrators to have full control.) <each group listed in policy> – Create Folder/Append Data (Apply to: This Folder Only) <each group listed in policy> – List Folder/Read Data (Apply to: This Folder Only) <each group listed in policy> – Read Attributes (Apply to: This Folder Only) <each group listed in policy> – Traverse Folder/Execute File (Apply to: This Folder Only) Is there a "best practice" when changing usernames and using folder redirection? Bye, Christian
June 20th, 2011 3:42pm

Hi, If you change the username on PC, I’m afraid you should rebuild the folder redirection. Furthermore, there are similar threads may be helpful to you: http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=502&eventno=9101&source=Folder%20Redirection&phase=1 http://serverfault.com/questions/8338/why-is-folder-redirection-failing-on-windows-vista-with-event-id-502 Please Note: Since the website is not hosted by Microsoft, the link may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this information. You can try to follow the suggestion above to change permission for test. Hope that helps. Regards, Leo Huang Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
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June 22nd, 2011 5:35am

I'll give it a try. This seems like it would be extremely difficult to do for the whole company.
March 3rd, 2012 8:53am

at what point do you turn the offline files service back on?
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March 3rd, 2012 12:40pm

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953529 I believe this KB applies even though it only says XP/Vista. We plan on changing our account names to be consistent with other domains in our forest. I recently changed my own name and ran in to this problem. Interestingly it does create the new folder on the server and copy all the data over. The problem is my client didn't update and I'm still looking at the old folder which is now empty. I don't like the solution. Having to completely delete the user profile on the machine seems excessive and will result in loss of data for anything that isn't redirected. We only redirect "My Documents" and "Desktop". I feel like there has to be another way accomplish this without loss of data.
March 3rd, 2012 2:00pm

The service ois only stoped, after a restart of the computer the service is running.
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March 4th, 2012 1:11am

I finally found the solution. I have to stop the offline files service: stop offline files servicelogoff userrename userlogon user with new namegpupdate /forcelogofflogon (files will now be moved to the new location)
March 4th, 2012 1:20am

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