AD Profile Tab : Home Folder Settings

[kennysarmy]

As part of my investigations in to deploying a newer Windows 10 image I've been looking closely at our setups.

 

In AD I've noticed three different ways users have their Home Drives set:

 

148 accounts have Connect H:\ To: \\\usershare$

 

546 accounts have Connect Z:\ To: \\\usershare$

 

952 accounts have Local Path: \\\usershare$

 

 

The logon script for all accounts includes : net use h: /home

 

 

I have a folder redirection policy for all accounts which includes:

 

Documents

Setting: Basic (Redirect everyone's folder to the same location)hide

Path: %HOMESHARE%%HOMEPATH%\Documents

Options

Grant user exclusive rights to Documents : Disabled

Move the contents of Documents to the new location : Disabled

Also apply redirection policy to Windows 2000, Windows 2000 server, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 operating systems : Disabled

Policy Removal Behavior : Leave contents

 

 

Everything seems to be working fine.

 

I'd like things consistent in AD though, should I change all the accounts to Local Path: \\\usershare$ ?

[Katy]

I would have them all set to H:\ -> \\server\usershare$ (assuming yours actually maps direct to a folder, e.g. \\server\share\%username%) and then remove the "net use h: /home" as it's redundant.

[Boredguy]

We have all ours set in AD to be the drive letter we're planning on using, and group policy uses it when they logon (so we don't need to use net use etc, but then again we use GPP to map the drives and to rename the home drive to something nicer than \\server\student$\yr32\blah\documents)

[kennysarmy]

I would have them all set to H:\ -> \\server\usershare$ (assuming yours actually maps direct to a folder, e.g. \\server\share\%username%) and then remove the "net use h: /home" as it's redundant.

 

As an example a student's drive would be:

 

\\server\d$\users\PupilDrives\2014\6503

 

 

 

I will look in to a method to batch change all the accounts.

 

Thanks.