Users home drive and details now showing just as "Documents"

[confuseduser]

Hello..

 

We have a number of new machines running Win 7 Pro 64bit. All our old PC's are running Win XP Pro.

 

Our server is the original Windows 2008 32bit server (its not been updated).

 

The Win 7 stations have joined the domain, but after anybody logs on to the new PC's, back on the server their icon changes, and their username becomes "Documents"

 

Not a great problem with the users in the 'staff' area... their folder-name can be identified by properties/sharing. Its going to be a bigger problem for the staff to look at work in their class area and see 30+ "Documents" instead of j.smith j.jones etc etc

 

Simple fix?

 

Thanks

[pete]

Use the search Luke:

 

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-7/47835-windows-7-gotchas-tips-fyi.html#post438279

 

Fiddling with desktop.ini permissions can slow down logins, however.

 

Your best bet going forward is to bite the bullet and redirect their My Document/Documents to \\server\share\username\documents

[Ergo]

Exactly as @pete says...

 

David Irwin

[MrWu]

Short term fix I had right click on the description bar in explorer, select 'More' and choose Filename, that should now show the username as description...

[plexer]

 

Your best bet going forward is to bite the bullet and redirect their My Document/Documents to \\server\share\username\documents

 

Anybody got ideas on ways to then automatically copy everything from \username into \username\documents

 

Ben

[SBennett]

Your best bet going forward is to bite the bullet and redirect their My Document/Documents to \\server\share\username\documents

 

This is how I did it, took a lot of time but in the end it is worth it.

[FN-GM]

This is how I did it, took a lot of time but in the end it is worth it.

 

Really? I scripted the move and left it overnight, done when i woke up.

[Ergo]

Anybody got ideas on ways to then automatically copy everything from \username into \username\documents

 

Ben

 

I suspect RoboCopy is the answer but I am not expert enough to advise how to set it up for the copy

 

Any experts out there who can help?

 

Dave

[SBennett]

Really? I scripted the move and left it overnight, done when i woke up.

 

I should of done that but I preferred to do it manually as it is important data. I now use AD Bulk User to do the change.

[plexer]

I should of done that but I preferred to do it manually as it is important data. I now use AD Bulk User to do the change.

 

That's to modify the ad account properties?

 

Ben

[SBennett]

That's to modify the ad account properties?

 

Ben

 

I should of said that it is for the new students that I setup in AD (over summer).

[FN-GM]

I should of done that but I preferred to do it manually as it is important data. I now use AD Bulk User to do the change.

 

Even more reason to script it, less likely to make a mistake

[SBennett]

Even more reason to script it, less likely to make a mistake

 

Indeed. Thankfully everyone was completed successfully with no problems. Now that all of the students have been done, it's an easier process now.

[pete]

You'll want something like:

 

(Danger Will Robinson, this is a destructive process if it goes wrong - do it on test directories until you're sure it'll behave and ensure your backup is good.)

 

The /L on the end means it won't actually do anything to the files, but still make sure it's doing what you want it to before feeding it the user_variable.

 

robocopy \\server\share\user_variable\ \\server\share\user_variable\Documents /E /MOVE /XD \\server\share\user_variable\Documents \\server\share\user_variable\other-folders-you-don't-want-to-move /XF \\server\share\user_variable\file-you-don't-want-to-move /LOG:filename.log /L

 

We're moving the userdir contents including empty directories, except for the Documents subfolder (which we'll create if it doesn't exist) and the other-folders-you-don't-want-to-move subfolder and the file-you-don't-want-to-move, logging everything to filename.log (which is local to wherever you kicked robocopy off from) and we're telling it to do a dry-run only.

Edited September 11, 2012 by pete