How do I overcome the “The symbolic link cannot be followed because its type is disabled.” error when getting the target of a symbolic link?

Question

Following on from a previous question, I am creating a symbolic link on a Server 2008 from a Vista machine using UNC paths. I can create the link just fine. I can go to the

Answer 1

I recently found this on all my corporate Windows 7 boxes when one of my legacy programs stopped working. After some searching and finding these settings I tried setting via the command line and via the registry with no relief.

I found that you can use the command from an elevated prompt:

fsutil behavior query SymlinkEvaluation

This will return the status of these links AND in my case that they are being controlled by a group policy! Thanks IT department (you f@$#%$rs)!