Hey,
I am working on a GPO implementation to fix an issue that randomly started occurring with an aging application,the application is a Java App that hooks into a file repository on the intranet, when the user downloads a file from the applications website it downloads it to C:\Users\<Username>\App Name\Filename.doc - every other file the users download errors due to a "File in use Error" caused by Windows Search Indexing.
The fix, manually disable Windows Search Indexing of the "C:\Users\<Username>\App Name" Folder - as we have nearly 20k users with this issue i was tasked with implementing a remote fix for the entire domain.
Looked into the following:
Default Excluded Paths & Prevent Indexing Certain Paths - at first i thought i could use a username variable - i have tried all of the following with no luck.
C:\Users\%LogonName%\App Name
C:\Users\%UserName%\App Name
C:\Users\*\App Name\ - this one does seem to do what we want, however it does not show up in the exclude list in the Indexing GUI and the error still occurs.
So, the only way i have got this to work so far is to add the users SAMAccountName individually to the group policy (C:\Users\SAMAccountName\App Name) - with the scale of our domain this will become a very heavy workload even after the initial 20k users are pasted into the GPO.
I then thought why not create a GPO registry patch in the path the GPO adds this too, on our machine's this unfortunately this corrupts the index completely.
Does anyone have any ideas or previous experience attempting a fix like this?
Running Windows 7 with a domain functional level of 2008.