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I have seen a lot of workarounds regarding this issue. For those who aren't aware, in Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7, when you share a folder it no longer has a unique icon in Explorer. It appears as the other folders do. All of the workarounds I have seen are for one-off scenarios where someone is trying to fix their own computer, there is no solution, which would be easy to implement on an enterprise network.

I'm wondering if anyone has tried to tackle this issue on a large scale and what they did.

As a comparison, I have well over 50 file servers in place, so doing something 50 times is not an option.

Read this post for more information http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee681705%28WS.10%29.aspx

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Can you highlight some of the workarounds you've found? There may be a way to implement them. – Dan Nov 9 '11 at 8:52
I just reviewed the one article I was reading, and that fix is only apparent in the OS you are viewing it from. So if you were to tweak your own OS it would show up fine. The other article is from MS and talks about adding a tab with Share Status. I don't think there is any way to get the distinct icon back. – Terry Zolinski Nov 9 '11 at 23:53
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