Thursday, May 12, 2016

Configuring the recycle bin for redirected folders

Hi all.

Recently, we had the need to disable the recycle bin for all redirected folders. This was due to the fact that the recycle bin - by default - takes a percentage of the volume it is located on, and we redirect to really large volumes, which results in undesirable sizes of these bins... Especially because we charge the users the amount of space they use :-)

Lucky me found a AskDS post that explains the basic steps of managing the recycle bin:
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askds/2012/07/16/managing-the-recycle-bin-with-redirected-folders-with-vista-or-windows-7/

What the AskDS post lacks:
a) What are the folder IDs?
b) How do I deploy the required values?