Folder Redirection

[Exet]

Hi All,

 

Currently migrating user shares and they are currently shared by each individual user share I am however changing this so that just the year of intake folder is shared.

 

Currently as its dc\username for the users home share I now want it to be dc\students\2010\username.

 

Will I need a seperate gpo for each year of intake? and also I have set documents redirect to user homeshare but it has now renamed the folder to my documents.

 

Any help would be much appreciated.. thanks in advance

[Exet]

For each individual intake year my plan is to put them each into a security group and then apply the different intake home location shares to the relevant security group.. is this the best way?

 

As previously all users folders where shared individually and I have read this is bad practice?

 

thanks

[MrLudwig]

The folders haven’t been renamed, it’s the desktop.ini file within each home folder that Explorer reads and presents the folder as Documents. The folder is still called the same and can be accessed using that name in paths. If you delete the desktop.ini file and refresh the view it will show it’s real name. The desktop.ini file will be recreated the next time the user logs in though.

 

You could get around this Windows behaviour by creating a Documents folder within the named user folder and set that as the home folder.

 

I do this for staff users and redirect their desktop, downloads and favourites folders there. Pictures, Music and Video folders are set to follow the Home folder. We use roaming profiles for staff so redirecting all these folders means the contents doesn’t get shunted around at each logon/logoff.

 

With advanced folder redirection you can specify different paths based on group memberships, so you should be able to use the same GPO for each year group.

[Exet]

Thanks for the response, I will use the advanced folder redirection for the seperate intake years.

 

Back on to the my documents is there any other way around this without using FRSM and blocking the desktop.ini as i have heard this can effect login times

[3s-gtech]

If it's so you can easily see which folder is which, just right click on the column headers row in Explorer, select More, and choose Filename from the list. Shuffle the Filename column across to the left, and you can now ignore the 'Name' column.

[Exet]

Thanks yea was kind of wanting to tidy it up for my own piece of mind but its driving me insane trying to sort it now