Windows Server 2012 R2 as a domain controller
Internet Explorer 11 64/32
Favorites are redirected to a Windows network share (on the server itself)
Issue: When clicking a favourite redirected to the Windows network share, IE does nothing.
For testing purpose,
- I double click a .url file in redirected Favorites (e.g. \\domain_controller\profiles\username\Favorites\website.url), IE opens with a blank page.
- If the .url file is placed at local drive or a Samba share (e.g. in a Synology box, probably it does not really matter as long as it is a network share residing in another computer), IE works fine.
- The issue applies to every one (probably except Administrator) logged on the domain controller.
- I tried reset IE. It did not work.
- Favourites redirection works on Windows 8.1 client computers in the domain.
- Pinned Site Shortcut (.website) file works everywhere
- When Enable Protected Mode in Internet Options\Security\Internet is disabled, IE can open .url file in a Windows network share. But it is probably not a good idea to permanently disable it.
Any suggestion on fixing the issue? Thank you.