By default Windows SBS 2008 has 2 shares setup - RedirectedFolders and UserShares, along with the various bits and bobs in the group policy to get it to work. Sadly they've placed the actual directories in the root of C:\. I don't like that. I'm fussy about file placement and it would be nice to move …
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New Years eve the extra bits of hardware I needed for my Xen box arrived (cheapo motherboard for VMX (Intel VT-x in my case) and power supply). As you can imagine with a house full of people, and corresponding day of pain afterwards, it wasn't the best time to be faffing with setting it all up. …
...redirected App data directories, and causes a crash (Visual C++ Runtime error). Unfortunately after updating one or two of our customers at work it appeared that a few user accounts still had a redirected app data directory, presumably because they weren't around when it was removed.
This one really had us at work and really threw us massively. Imagine a customer who has recently had a number of non trivial modifications to their network. Now imagine several users, whom have Outlook over HTTP RPC (Outlook Anywhere) configured and enabled for slow networks only, and get asked for authentication when accessing a handful …
Here's another one that caught me out today, but I've never come across before.