Windows 7 Symlink Errors, regardless of symlinkevaluation behaviour set as enabled

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Paul Collinson (SPG)

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I have a rare but reoccurring error in my environment whereby users are presented with the error "The symbolic link cannot be followed because its type is disabled" when trying to follow a sym-link

I am not able to replicate the error on demand, it appears to affect differing users at indeterminate intervals.

Group Policy is configured to enable L2L, R2L, L2R and R2R symbolic link types.

We also confirm that these are enabled at the time of the error by running the 'fsutil behavior query symlinkevaluation' command, to find that all symbolic link types are still "enabled" as per below:

NOTE: SymlinkEvaluation is currently controlled by group policy.
Changes to this setting will be superceded by policy.

Local to local symbolic links are enabled.
Local to remote symbolic links are enabled.
Remote to local symbolic links are enabled.
Remote to remote symbolic links are enabled.


If we restart the machine, or if we run 'fsutil behavior set SymlinkEvaluation R2R:1', the error is resolved and the user can continue utilizing the affected symbolic link directories.

I would like to reiterate: All symbolic link types are enabled by group policy, and as far as fsutil is concerned, the link types are all enabled at the time of the error occurring.

There are no conflicting Group Policy Objects in the environment - this is the only group policy that sets the "Selectively allow the evaluation of a symbolic link" policy. The group policy is also successfully applied to the Workstation in question.

Any help that can be offered would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you and regards,

Paul

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