Hello all,

I believe this may be a group policy question, but i'm trying to get my group policies in line for a potential rollout of windows 8.1 in the enterprise. 

what's happening is that after my gpos apply, any software that is installed on the machine doesn't show in the startmenu. I must manually copy all shortcuts that are created by the install (I must elevate to install) from 

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

to 

C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu

if I want to find my shortcuts at all. 

Obviously this is a misconfiguration of group policy somewhere, but I don't know where to look. The policies were roughly ported over from windows 7 where they worked very well, so I think I just need to identify where this bogus setting is coming from and correct. 

It's a bit hard to google for the right terms on this. 

unsure if it's relevant but home folders are redirected to server and syncing is also in play (all working).