Default Save Locations

[ebuckner]

Hi all

 

One that I thought would cause me little to no issues has actually become a bigger pain than I first thought.

 

Basically we have a primary that want to set their student logon's to default save to a shared drive, as they have to share devices in class. There's a GP for the MS products but not one to set the default location for everything else, at least not that I've seen.

 

I don't want to map the home areas to the share as obviously this would be a nightmare and I have tried to enforce the items deployed to place bar GP as a work around but it seems to only work if the software is using the old style save dialogue boxes.

 

They've agreed that if I could set the top quick links icon to be the shared drive this would be easy enough for the students to get to however I cannot seem to get a reg hack to work.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated, we are running Win 10 1809 Education and Server 2019.

 

Cheers

[CHiLL]

If you aren't mapping their home areas, where do their Documents, etc point to? The local machine?

[ebuckner]

We are mapping their home areas to their individual shares of the File Server like you would normally. They just want to default save to a class share rather than there individual home shares because "It's too complicated for students to press This PC and then Shared Documents", I know this makes no sense as it isn't complicated but that's what they want and if we cannot get it working they want a single class login which I am really anti the idea of.

[CHiLL]

We are mapping their home areas to their individual shares of the File Server like you would normally. They just want to default save to a class share rather than there individual home shares because "It's too complicated for students to press This PC and then Shared Documents", I know this makes no sense as it isn't complicated but that's what they want and if we cannot get it working they want a single class login which I am really anti the idea of.

Don't worry, it does make sense, especially working in schools!

 

It's been a good while since I last looked at this, but from what I can remember, there is no global default save value anywhere. Some apps may simply use Explorer's default value, but not all do. A lot have their own value. Some can be set via GPO, such as Office applications, file explorer, etc. However the random other apps you can't, unless it happens to use Explorer's values or you can find the registry entry for each app and then push that through GPP.

 

I may be wrong, but I think that's how it was the last time I looked into this.

[ebuckner]

They're a special breed in education!

 

I was thinking the same as you, annoying but thanks for the clarification, I need to do some testing with the FE GPs this afternoon, if I get a chance (doubt it!)

 

Cheers