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September 24th, 2010 09:00
Strange local drive re-direction issue - Blank Icons
Has anyone seen this before and does anyone know the cause/solution?
This is happening on both our test/dev setup and our production environment (vWorkspace 7.1).
When a user logs in to a Windows 7 VDI session the endpoints local devices are re-directed through as seen here:
But... when the same user logs in to a Win2008 R2 RDS session, the re-directed folders are missing and you get blank icons which are inactive.
The user is using folder re-direction to move his profiles folders (AppData, etc) to a network share...
The 2 local endpoints tested with are Windows 7.
Any ideas why this might be happening?
Cheers,
Dan.
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dbolton
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September 24th, 2010 11:00
Possibly a registry hive capturing issue (or lack of it).
On the test account in question there was no registry capturing policies in place for the user. I've set this in place to capture the HKCU\Software\Microsoft hive and HKCU\Control Panel.
The client drives now appear.
I will finely tune the registry capturing next week.
Odd. Not sure if it's still an underlying RDP/RDS issue but at least theres a work around.
I'll blame another admin here for now!
Dan.
Frakker84
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January 9th, 2015 06:00
Hello to all,
in my case, I have the same problem with Microsoft RDS 2012 R2. The strange issue occurs when I have redirected the Local AppData ( HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\Local AppData ) to Home Directory for IE10/11 issue. For testing I have to reset the registry key and the mapped local drives work back again.
In the final environment I have redirected only Cookies and History in Home directory insted of entire Local AppData that points (by default) in user profile.
dbolton
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September 24th, 2010 10:00
In addition...
The first time they login to the RDS server the local drives appear and function correctly...
The problem only seems to occur if the local profile is not deleted at logoff. - Which is how it should be for us. So I will will look into why thats not working as a side issue.
However...
I'm sure this will be an issue for those who leave the local profile on the RDS box and use that with a mixture of folder re-direction?
Dan,
Michel Roth
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September 24th, 2010 12:00
so you are saying this problem occured because you were not saving any HKCU keys?
dbolton
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September 24th, 2010 13:00
It would seem like that yes...
Surprised client device re-direction is so dependant on settings in the HKCU though. I just thought it was a setting passed from the RDP client.
You live and learn,
Dan
Michel Roth
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September 24th, 2010 13:00
I would believe the same…