Mass creating users...almost there!

[Kineas]

So I need to create users for all the students in the school. I've used Active User Manager to make the users with a .csv file, they've all got a shared folder (\\server\username$) which is set in Active Directory to map to their Z drives, permissions are all set. All I need to do is to set a policy to redirect their My Documents to their folder. Redirecting it to "\\server\%username%$" doesn't work, how do I do this?

 

I've only made 1 year group so far for testing purposes, and I pretty much manually created every folder so if there's an easier way to do this, then I don't mind starting from scratch. I know you can set a home folder with active user manager, but is that My Documents or what? I'd rather stick with group policy but any suggestions would be great!

 

Thanks for any replies.

Edited July 11, 2013 by Kineas

[FishCustard]

Use the 'Redirect to the user's home directory' option (assuming you're doing this via GPP - if not you can use the %homeshare% environment variable).

[Davit2005]

Redirection is pretty different and as you say is done through GPO unfortunately the GPO's don't seem to be very happy with normal wildcards i.e. %username%

 

A lot of people go down the route of sharing the root folder not the individual folders as this seems to work well on Vanilla Windows networks better the idea of sharing the individuals folder is similar to the way RM works

 

Sorry to be not much of help, please post if you manage to do this.

[soveryapt]

In the GPO for the students, you need to add in the root share for the users, and the GPO will do the rest.

 

So Users > Policies > Windows Settings > Folder Redirection then right click on Documents and set that to being the root of where they are stored.

 

The best thing to do is actually have a shared folder on your system that includes all the users, or to have individual folders for staff, students etc. Then in the GPO I've mentioned above, you can set it to being \\server1\students and it will fill in the %username% bit for you (it should show you what the end product will turn out like on the Folder Rediction settings screen.

 

Under pictures / movies etc, make sure you have it set to Follow Documents unless you have a particular drive you want to redirect such things to, else it will just confuse everything.

[Kineas]

Thanks for the replies, but I've sorted it. The home folder is set as the users home directory in AD, and I missed the option in group policy that allows you to redirect My Documents to the users home folder. Did that and it works great

[sted]

Thanks for the replies, but I've sorted it. The home folder is set as the users home directory in AD, and I missed the option in group policy that allows you to redirect My Documents to the users home folder. Did that and it works great

 

but not ideal as your user share will end up filled with "my documents"

[FishCustard]

but not ideal as your user share will end up filled with "my documents"

 

Which you can solve using FSRM - use an Audit policy to deny Administrators read access to the desktop.ini files and the folders will have the right names.

 

Or, redirect to \\server\share\%username%\Documents. That way the %username% folder won't be affected.