The Administering Group Policy

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You are a network administrator for 70-680 Contoso Pharmaceuticals. You receive a call from another network administrator, John Evans, about a problem with desktop redirection. He says that he created a desktop redirection GPO for a couple of users in an OU named RedirectDesktop. He configured the folder so that both users would have the same desktop and gave them only Read, Execute, and List Folder Contents permissions to that folder.
Recently, John decided that he no longer wanted to control these users' desktops in that way. However, when he tried to make the policy redirect their desktops back to their local computers, it didn't work. He even deleted the policy, but the users' desk-tops are still being redirected to the shared folder. He doesn't know what else to do and needs your help.
To see how this happened, you must create the problem using the following steps:
1.Log on to Serverl using the domain administrator user name and password.
2.Create a folder on the desktop named Desktops and share it as Desktops. Configure the MCITP Certification ...
... security permissions of this folder so that Authenticated Users have Read& Execute, List Folder Contents, and Read permission.
3.Acid a couple of new text documents to this folder.
4.Create a first-level OU named DesktopRedirect.
Inside the DesktopRedirect OU, create two user accounts: DesktopUserl and DesktopUser2. Set their passwords as "MSPress*!". Clear the User Must Change
Password At Next Logon box. Add both users to the Server Operators group. This will allow them to log on locally to the domain controllers.
You are a computer consultant. Linda Randall, the Chief Information Officer of Lucerne Publishing, asks for your help. The Lucerne Publishing network consists of a single Active Directory domain with four domain controllers running Windows Server 2003, three file servers, and 300 clients that are evenly divided between Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP Professional.
All client computers have P: drive mappings that are supposed to be used for storing files. However, many employees don't really understand drive mappings. They often store files in their My Documents folder and then copy them over to the P: drive. This is also an issue because many employees forget to copy their files to the server until something (such as a data loss) occurs.
Setting Redirect The Folders Back To The Local User Profile Location When Policy Is Removed won't redirect the user's desktop back to their local desktops. If that is the desired result, you would have had to set this CCNA certification option when the policy was first configured.