Tips, thoughts and notes from the world of IT
You have shiny new Win7 PCs for your users, but several applications are not compatible with Win7. You’ve tried every trick in the book (including swearing) to make the applications work, but still no joy.
The answer is to use XP Mode, which is free if you have Win7 Professional or above.
XP Mode is great, but can also be a pain to get working happily on your domain. Here’s what I did:
I used the excellent Microsoft File Server Migration Toolkit to migrate files to our new file server on the weekend. However, although the user home folders are correctly being mapped to the H: drive, by using this setting in user properties:
the ‘Documents folder redirection’ GPO setting is not updating ‘My Documents’ to the new file server location.
The ‘Group Policy Results Wizard’ is a great way to help troubleshoot any issues with Group Policy Objects (GPO). Here is how you run it on Windows Server 2008 R2.
