Windows 2008r2 and user home folders

[mikemcsharry]

Odd one - and probably of my own making

 

I had to rebuild a server in a bit of a rush which had 2008r2 and a VMware light 2003 server virtualised. Most of the previous user activity was in the 2003 box.

 

Wrongly (I think) i copied a script that generated the users, made a drive for them and mapped that to their U: drive. In addition I have made a drive the pupils read from and the staff write to. This is mapped as the pupils z drive and drops on their desktop as a shortcut.

 

In their windows browsers drive U and drive Z are behaving perfectly.

 

What do I need to do in GPMC to map the users documents folder to U:\?

 

edit -

 

I've just gone through settings etc and this info may help. There are only 5 classes so if I have to set a policy per class then that's okay.

in AD the setting created by the script is to map U drive to \\server\pupilwork\theirclass\their AD displayname

pupilwork is a share on the server.

theirclass is the same as the OU they are immediately in

 

users were created with a dsadd script which finished with a -hmdir call to their folder and used -hmdrv to set that as U

 

end of edit

 

We have users on win7 and win 10

Edited March 22, 2018 by mikemcsharry

[sted]

in a gpo you need to configure folder redirection. user config\windows settings\folder redirection and basically fill in all the boxes as needed

[Guest obsidianpillar]

You'd need to configure a Folder Redirection Policy.

[mikemcsharry]

Hi Tom and Sted

Thanks for the replies - this is where I have been looking - please could you have a quick look at the edit I made to my initial post.

I can't figure out what info I need to put in.

It is a folder redirection policy that I've used to put the 'allshare' desktop out to the users. This is working okay

 

just opened the GPO lock down a bit so I can see what's happening at user level.

On win 7 PC when I run set command

homedrive=u:

homepath=\

homeshare=the unc path that matches the U drive

...

userprofile=c:\users\login name

 

(note in the schoo log in name and display name are not the same

 

But still when I click documents I am shown folders on the PC itself

 

Why do I think I have just one small thing missing??

Edited March 22, 2018 by mikemcsharry

[sted]

Hi Tom and Sted

Thanks for the replies - this is where I have been looking - please could you have a quick look at the edit I made to my initial post.

I can't figure out what info I need to put in.

It is a folder redirection policy that I've used to put the 'allshare' desktop out to the users. This is working okay

 

just opened the GPO lock down a bit so I can see what's happening at user level.

On win 7 PC when I run set command

homedrive=u:

homepath=\

homeshare=the unc path that matches the U drive

...

userprofile=c:\users\login name

 

(note in the schoo log in name and display name are not the same

 

But still when I click documents I am shown folders on the PC itself

 

Why do I think I have just one small thing missing??

you cant put u:\ there documents needs to be something like \\server\share\pupils

 

unless you redirect user profiles (a seperate setting and with windows 10 i wouldnt) user profile itself will be c:\...