Create Folder At Logon: Active Directory

[6Foot2]

I need to create a nested set of folders in MyDocuments for students when they logon. The folder structure I need is as follows:

 

In Home folder:

 

Application Data\Microsoft\Excel

 

I have tried to do this in Active Directory as follows:

 

User configuration/Windows Settings/Folders

 

Then in the right hand pane right click New/Folder.

 

Action: Create.

 

No matter what I do [Creating the entire folder structure all at once or each folder one-by-one] nothing happens. What an I doing wrong?

 

Server O/S: Windows server 2008 Standard: 64 Bit.

Workstation: Windows XP Pro: SP3.

 

Any ideas?

 

Scrub that. Cracked it now.

Edited December 2, 2008 by 6Foot2

[Heebeejeebee]

Scrub that. Cracked it now.

 

Do tell - someone might be looking to do this themselves.

 

HBJB

[6Foot2]

I will post more tomorrow. Had to leave the office in a hurry today. Now I am in no condition to post a coherent reply [hic] Will detail all in the morning.

[6Foot2]

Our student users are broken up into year groups in Active Directory [like most schools I suspect] So a year 7 student will be in the Students/YOI2008 OU. The folder structure mirrors the Active Directory structure. The home folder for a Year 7 students is:

 

\\Servername\YOI2008\Username\Cached\

 

[The Cached folder for the MyDocuments is a relic from the old Viglen network I wanted to retain]

 

To create the folders I wanted at logon I used Group Policy Manager and created a GPO in each student OU and gave it a name which describes the function. Thus for Year 7 the GPO is called:

 

"YOI2008 Create Custom Folders At Logon"

 

I then edited this GPO going to:

 

User Configuration/Windows Settings/Folders.

 

In the right hand pane I Right clicked and selected:

 

New/Folder

 

Action: Create

 

Path: \\Servername\YOI2008\%Username%\Cached\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel

 

Attributes ticked: Hidden: Archive

 

Select the "Common" tab

 

Tick the box: Run in logged-on user's security context (user policy option)

 

I then made sure that the changes had been kept did a "GPUpdate /Force" and logged on as a test user in Year 7. It worked I then created a similar GPO for each year group in Active Directory changing only the name of the GPO and the YOI200? value as appropriate.

 

I don't know why It would not work the first way I tried it [i would have liked it to because that way there would have been one policy to apply to all students] but this way works so I am not going to knock it.

 

Sorry if this has been a little too wordy but I wanted to be as clear as possible. If anyone can suggest a better way of achieving the same ends I would be happy to hear of it but this is my solution for now.