Hello,
So I actually tried many of the steps that folks said to do and in reality for me, it took a longer list of them put together to actually work. This process is a pain in the butt and I have yet to actually go back and turn Roaming and Redirected Folders
back on
My Situation:
- I have a Windows 2012 XXX Domain (Was NON-R2 and is Now R2), all latest patches etc.
- My clients are Windows Phones, iPhones, Surfaces, Androids, Tablets, Windows 10, Windows 8.X and Windows 7
- I used Roaming Profiles
- I attempted to switch to Redirected Folders (initially) to see if that would solve the problem and it did not
- Cortana and Edge were broken for everyone, except 1 machine. That machine still had the original Windows 10 on it... so it was not broken. All other machines I had upgraded to November and bingo they broke.
Here are the steps I did exactly. It worked 100% of the time.
- Log People Out and reboot the client PC. this will unlock their profiles locally and remotely and stop blocking actions (deletes / renames etc) do NOT log them back in right now
- Log into the Domain Controller
- Disable Roaming and or Redirected Folders. Go into the GPO and disable it (I deleted mine actually)
- Reboot the Controller (again whether this step is necessary I don't care, I did it anyway)
- Rename the Roaming Profiles and or Redirected Folders Shared Folder (this is why people need to be logged out). You can technically stop sharing but I did not, because I needed to get to the files later
- In Computers and Users, make sure that on each users profile page they no longer are pointing to redirected / roaming profile locations
- Log into a clients machine as a local admin
- Open a command prompt and run gpupdate / force. Do NOT log off. Run this 3 times. This is something I am just used to doing 3 times.. Not even sure anymore where it came from, but I do.
- Reboot the client
- Log back into that machine as the local admin (not the domain admin)
- Rename the users local "%userprofile% folders. You can get their settings back from their redirected folder / roaming profile, since you didn't delete it
- Run Regedit. (yes, I had to do this step because the first machine I did got stuck in Temp Profile land. Doing this on all machines I never had this happen and zero issues).
- Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
- Click on the guids until you find the user name on it. (note: if you created a local user with the same name as the domain user, you are looking for username.domainname, not just username, otherwise just look for the username)
- Right click the guid and delete it (to be fair, I actually tested, renaming and deleting and both worked).
- Reboot the machine (it's a safety measure)
- 17. Log in as Admin one more time on the local machine (again the local admin)
- Open PowerShell in Administrator Mode (just opening it when you are logged in as Admin is not the same thing)
- run this command (you are going to see loads of errors, but I have yet to find one problem on all my machines)
-- Get-AppxPackage -allusers | foreach {Add-AppxPackage -register "$($_.InstallLocation)\appxmanifest.xml" -DisableDevelopmentMode} - Now I rebooted (again I am telling you what I did, don't do it and don't complain)
- Log in as the User themselves and it should say "Welcome to Windows" If it doesn't you did NOT rename or delete their local profile or you didn't do gpupdate / force and don't fib me
- Now open a command prompt
- Run gupdate / force -- it should just go back to the command prompt
- Now open two widows explorer windows. One of them to your new local profile (which again, depending on if you already had a local user with the same name as the domain name will either get %user% or %user.domain%
- The second window you want pointed to their previously remote profile or redirected folders location
- Copy things like Favorites, Documents, bla bla.. into the new completely local profile
- Add back any icons you are missing etc... I have Exchange at my house so I had to resetup Outlook as well
For me this worked 100% of the time.
I will re-update this if / when I go back to roaming / redirected folders.
Cheers
