Windows folder redirection files are not encrypted

Affected Products:

• Dell Encryption Enterprise
• Dell Encryption Personal
• Dell Data Protection | Enterprise Edition
• Dell Data Protection | Personal Edition

Affected Versions:

• v8.0 and Later

Folder Redirection allows the System Administrator to redirect the path of a folder to a new location. The location can be a folder on the local computer or a directory on a network file share. Users can work with files on a network drive as if the files were based on their local drive. The files in the folder are available to the user from any computer on the network. Folder Redirection is located under Windows Settings in the console tree when you edit domain-based Group Policy by using the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC). The path is [Group Policy Object Name]\User Configuration\Policies\Windows Settings\Folder Redirection.

Not Applicable

If a user were to add a file to the local Desktop folder using the local path, the file is encrypted per the Dell Encryption policy. Users may verify that the local Desktop Folders files are encrypted, when viewing the files in each of the Desktop Folder locations, while the network redirected Desktop Folder's files are not encrypted.

Dell Encryption is working as designed, files that are stored on a network share are not encrypted.

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