{"id":2315,"date":"2016-09-18T19:15:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T18:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/?p=2315"},"modified":"2016-09-18T19:15:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T18:15:29","slug":"office-2016-network-shortcuts-save-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/09\/2016\/office-2016-network-shortcuts-save-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Office 2016 Network Shortcuts Save Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a quick post to help sysadmins facing save issues with Microsoft Office 2016 &#8211; specifically the action of saving to the Documents folder and being redirected to Network Shortcuts instead. This issue may be present in Office 2013 too but it&#8217;s not what I have deployed in my environment so cannot say for sure if the same symptoms occur on 2013.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The problem scenario faced:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>User opens any Office 2016 application such as MS Word<\/li>\n<li>User attempts to save the document.\u00a0<strong>My Documents<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Desktop<\/strong> shows up in the list. Hovering over the items shows the correct destination (e.g., \\\\fileserver\\documents\\userA)<\/li>\n<li>However when user clicks <strong>My Documents<\/strong>\u00a0or <strong>Desktop<\/strong>\u00a0then they are instead directed to the following folder:\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>AppData\\Roaming\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Network Shortcuts<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>User can manually browse the correct path and create, modify and delete files &#8211; indicating no permission issues with the user&#8217;s redirected folder.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The issue I found was that\u00a0the MS Office application was attempting to traverse the entire directory structure&#8230; so even if a\u00a0user\u00a0has full access to their documents folder in \\\\fileserver\\documents\\userA, if they don&#8217;t have permissions to traverse the root folder \\\\fileserver\\documents then Office throws a tantrum and presents the Network Shortcuts folder to the user instead.<\/p>\n<p>In my testing the permissions below were the correct ones to assign to the root folder. Any more is unnecessary and any less and it just won&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Traverse folder \/ execute file<\/li>\n<li>List folder \/ read data<\/li>\n<li>Read attributes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/network-shortcuts-permissions-fix.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2316\" src=\"http:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/network-shortcuts-permissions-fix.png\" alt=\"network-shortcuts-permissions-fix\" width=\"365\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/network-shortcuts-permissions-fix.png 365w, https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/network-shortcuts-permissions-fix-235x300.png 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hope that helps!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a quick post to help sysadmins facing save issues with Microsoft Office 2016 &#8211; specifically the action of saving to the Documents folder and being redirected to Network Shortcuts instead. This issue may be present in Office 2013 too but it&#8217;s not what I have deployed in my environment so cannot say for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[115,209,45],"class_list":["post-2315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-ntfs","tag-office-2016","tag-permissions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1trTO-Bl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2315"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2324,"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions\/2324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}