I've recently inherited a client who has a folder redirection policy GPO and home paths specified through user attributes in AD. Now the strange thing is, I have literally no idea how it is working. See for example:
In the GPO - it specifies the location for My Documents redirection to:
\\%HOMESHARE%%HOMEPATH
Now if I type this into a run prompt manually it of course resolves to:
\\\\server01\user\john
The Home Folder connect drive specified for John in AD is mapped to U:\ and in the field:
\\server01\user\john
Yet folder redirection is working, how is this possible? To clarify, this is a Windows 2003 server environment with Win7 and Win XP clients (redirection works on both clients)
%HOMESHARE%%HOMEPATH%
GPMC will insert them back in. What's in fdeploy.ini? Does that include the extra backslashes? If so, I'd guess the GP client is removing them when the env variable expansion is performed. – Bryan Aug 12 '13 at 22:36