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In order for the Windows Search Service to be able to index a folder/share, the local SYSTEM account requires NTFS permissions on the server.
After setting these permissions, group policy was able to add the users' home shares to the Documents library and I was able to do this manually myself without the message, "This network location can't be included ...
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I believe you have to allow offline files and have the redirected folders set to "always available offline" for windows search in windows 7 to index the network location. There is, I believe, a patch for windows 7 that allows it to index network UNC paths.
I've seen other reports of people using mklink to a separate directory as a symbolic link to the ...
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I may have this sussed now...
The local SYSTEM account did not have any permissions set on the folders in question. I've allowed SYSTEM to have full access, as per this thread. This could explain why Windows is telling me that the directory is not indexed.
I've also changed the Offline files option on the share to allow "Only the files and programs that ...
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One possible solution is to manually update registry keys which tell Windows where the "personal" folder is located.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
"Personal"="\\\\server\\users\\username\\Documents"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders]
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I'd be looking at long folders / file names rather than corruption as such. You may try resetting permissions, too.
Alternatively, back up her My Docs. Delete the files, check redirection works and manually copy to the redirected folder. These steps may also highlight the original issue.
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