We have been using symbolic intensively to archive historic files. An automatic script would create symbolic links regularly based on certain criteria. Users don't experience inconvenience as the soft links can be opened as regular files, programs will run without issues, and the type of those soft links are identical to the type of file it has a link to (for example, a symbolic link to an Excel file will have Excel file type in its properties). However, recently we have noticed that the type of links has changed to SYMLINK which makes Windows to ask users to choose what program to open with by popping up the "Open With.." window.
Do you guys what will affect the file server to change its behavior and represent symbolic links type as SYMLINK and create additional troubles?