Remove Run menu from Start Menu - Policy Bug

Today I stumbled across a bug with Windows 8.1 / 2012 R2 with the Group Policy setting:

User Configuration ->Policies -> Administrative Templates -> Start Menu and Taskbar-> Remove Run menu from Start Menu

I had this policy applied to a Remote Desktop Session Host through Loopback in a user session lockdown policy.

When this policy was applied, I could not access any network share on my 2012 R2 file servers and received the following error message:

Accessing the resource \\fileserver\share has been disallowed.


I could received the same error when attempting to access the file server shares through a DFS namespace.

After removing this policy setting from my RD Session Hosts, the issue was resolved.
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