Desktop Redirection Problem

[dubsdj]

Hi I've got a really annoying issue with the desktop redirection.

We used to have an old server which had all the folders containing the icons for the desktop redirection. It all worked wonderfully until we decided to do away with the old server and put a new windows 2k3 server in.

I thought that I could simply just change the path of where the redirected folders are located in Active Directory . So I did this and it seemed to work but I had a really annoying issue.

I noticed that when people logged in, it was hanging on Loading Personal Settings for sometimes around a minute... This rung alarm bells and initially I thought it was something to do with DNS but I checked DNS and it all seemed good.

I then went to the event viewer on the machine and looked at the application log.

It said that the desktop redirection was successful but It was trying to copy the desktop from the old server which doesnt even exist anymore to the new location. For some weird reason it says its successful but that can't be as the location where it is copying from doesn't even exist anymore. So then I was stuck and everything I tried it still kept saying that it was copying the desktop folder from the server that isn't even online anymore.

Lucky for me, the students all have manditory profiles so I recreated the desktop folders and then created a new manditory profile for the students and then the application log stopped talking about redirecting from the old server and the logons instantlly were faster...

BUT.... What am I going to do with the 200 users who have roaming profiles?? I can't recreate all their profiles as this would take ages because I would have to re set up their email and personal settings... But it seems that the roaming profiles have something in them that keeps referring back to the old server for their desktop redirection?!!

I have changed the group policy to point to the new location of the redirected folders but the roaming profiles seem to still look at the old location.. I tried removing desktop redirection completely but when I did this and the user logs on I get an error message from the computer saying It could not find the desktop (on the old server!)) It seems like it just ignores the fact that I have changed all the folder locations in AD..

Is there anybody out there who knows if there is something I can do with the roaming profiles (delete a file) or something so that it forgets about that old server?! Talk about annoying or what!!!

It's things like this that make me hate computers

Hope somebody can help