Redirecting My documents

[faza]

Hello All,

 

I am trying to redirect My Documents to the pupils My document on the server in their home folder.

 

I just wanted to know what i put into Group Policy

 

%USERPROFILE%\MY DOCUMENTS

 

I am thinking that this will not work as we have Mandatory profiles.

[mrforgetful]

We have a mandatory profile aswell and use the following for My Documents redirection:

 

Basic

 

Redirect to the User's Home Folder

 

and in Active Directory they have H:\ redirected to their folder on the server.

[faza]

Can you specify the location so it goes straight to the My Documents within their home folder on the server.

[mrforgetful]

I'd have thought you'd choose

Redirect to the following location

 

\\%HOMEFOLDER%\My Documents

[faza]

Ok Mate thanks i will try that

[faza]

No it did not work all they got was the desktop, No My Documents

[mrforgetful]

Actually thinking about it.

 

You have Mandatory Profiles, which means nothing in that profile can be altered by the user.

You keep the My Documents folder within that unchangeable profile.

 

Surely that won't work?

 

I'd suggest you need to keep your profiles and My Docs seperate if using Mandatory Profiles.

 

Anyone else?

[faza]

I do keep them separate is there a way that i can redirect it to the other folder?

[Guest kerrymoralee9280]

I think we have mandatory and ours redirect to:

 

\\SERVERNAME\SHARENAME\MyDocs\%USERNAME%

 

works a treat

[mrforgetful]

Oh something I forgot to mention.

 

My documents is by default located within the Profile, so you're trying to redirect it to where it should already reside. Do you even need to redirect?

 

If so it might be 'Redirect to Local User Profile Location' as when they log in their profile will be copied locally no?

[faza]

No because i turned off Offline files.

[mrforgetful]

My understanding of User Profiles is this:

 

When a user logs on Active Directory is checked for a profile.

 

If non exists a copy of the local 'Default User' profile is made and named as the user's.

 

If a profile path does exist then then that is copied down locally.

 

If that profile is Roaming changes made are copied back to the server at logoff, unless the policy to not do so is specified.

 

If that profile is Mandatory then nothing is copied back to the server at logoff.

 

 

If the My Documents folder is located within that Profile Path then it will be affected accordinly.

[faza]

But we used to have roaming profiles and most of the profile folders including My Documents arwe still present in the pupils home folder. Can i just redirect the My Documents to the My Documents in their home folder??

[plexer]

If you want to redirect a users "my documents" shortcut to their home directory you have to use the unc to their home folder i.e \\servername\usersshare\username

 

\\server03\07jbloggs$ would be valid if you shared a users home directory as jbloggs.

 

Drives are not mapped when this runs so you cannot use h:

 

We use mandatory profiles for students but they still all have their own home folder.

 

Ben

[faza]

I want to redirect My Documents to the My Documents folder within their home folder. I understand with Mandatory profiles it will not be there. But before we moved over we had roaming profiles which created the My Documents folder so i would really like it redirected to that My Documents folder if poss.

[plexer]

Something is getting confusing.

 

My Documents is just a link to where the student save their stuff.

 

If their files are saved on their h: drive which is mapped to \\servername\username then if you redirect my documents to \\servername\username then the my documents shortcut on the desktop will go to the correct place.

 

If you are saying that within a users my home folder their is a folder called my documents then redirect to \\servername\username\my documents you may need some quotes or even to use 8.3 notation.

 

Ben