{"id":32,"date":"2007-11-06T12:35:42","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T17:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/?p=32"},"modified":"2007-11-06T12:35:42","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T17:35:42","slug":"disable-folder-redirection-synchronization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/2007\/11\/disable-folder-redirection-synchronization\/","title":{"rendered":"Disable Folder Redirection Synchronization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this issue when we had an employee with a personal computer (that turned into a work computer) leave the company.  I had to remove all the work applications and put the computer back to the state it was before we applied all the group policies and such to it.<\/p>\n<p>As a side before we start, I know that I could just reformat the machine and then reinstall the drivers.  But that just takes too long.  Uninstalling 4 applications, removing the computer from the domain, and performing a few other tasks takes about 15 minutes to accomplish.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how to disable folder redirection with My Documents synchronization:<br \/>\n1.) Open MMC (Start >> Run >> MMC)<br \/>\n2.) Control M to add a module<br \/>\n3.) Alt D to add the snap-in module<br \/>\n4.) Navigate to Group Policy Object Editor (or a similar name)<br \/>\n5.) Click Add, and then finish (you&#8217;ll want it to be on the local machine anyway)<br \/>\n6.) Click Close, then OK<br \/>\n7.) Navigate to Local Computer Policy >> User Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Network<br \/>\n8.) Disable Synchronize all offline files when loggin on, logging off, and before suspend.<br \/>\n9.) Reboot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this issue when we had an employee with a personal computer (that turned into a work computer) leave the company. I had to remove all the work applications and put the computer back to the state it was before we applied all the group policies and such to it. As a side &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/2007\/11\/disable-folder-redirection-synchronization\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Disable Folder Redirection Synchronization<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}