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How to configure FOLDER REDIRECTION?
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Folder Redirection – Users Home Directory within My Documents
1. Create a hidden share on File & Printer Server called HOME$. This is where you will store all your user home directories.
2. Click Share Permission should have the Group Everyone with Full Control.
3. Click on the Security Tab and select Administrators, then click the Advanced Button. Select Administrators (of your Domain Name) and click Edit. Check security from ‘This Folder Only’ to ‘To This Folder, Subfolder and Files’. Click Ok, Ok and Ok to close. This will allow the administrator have full access to any folders created under the Home share. So the administrator will be able to see all the users home directories.
4. Now we must create an Group Policy to redirect the users home directories to the My Documents folder.
5. Open ‘Active Directory for Users and Computers’. Right mouse click the OU which will run the new Folder Redirection Group Policy.
6. Click New to create and new policy and call it Folder Redirection. Goto User Configuration | Windows Settings | Right Click My Documents.
7. Choose the setting to BASIC
8. Target Folder Location = Create a folder for each user under root path
9. Root Path = \\ServerName\Home$
10. Click Okay and your policy is created.
11. Go to your servers command prompt and type GPUPDATE to refresh the policy.
12. If this is a Terminal or Citrix Server, also do a GPUPDATE on each server.
13. Login as a user for the first time and it should create a folder under HOME$ and with the username. Also the administrator should be able to browse through the contents of that new folder.
14. Right Click the MY DOCUMENT tab and it should point to \\servername\home$\username
Hope this helps....
1. Create a hidden share on File & Printer Server called HOME$. This is where you will store all your user home directories.
2. Click Share Permission should have the Group Everyone with Full Control.
3. Click on the Security Tab and select Administrators, then click the Advanced Button. Select Administrators (of your Domain Name) and click Edit. Check security from ‘This Folder Only’ to ‘To This Folder, Subfolder and Files’. Click Ok, Ok and Ok to close. This will allow the administrator have full access to any folders created under the Home share. So the administrator will be able to see all the users home directories.
4. Now we must create an Group Policy to redirect the users home directories to the My Documents folder.
5. Open ‘Active Directory for Users and Computers’. Right mouse click the OU which will run the new Folder Redirection Group Policy.
6. Click New to create and new policy and call it Folder Redirection. Goto User Configuration | Windows Settings | Right Click My Documents.
7. Choose the setting to BASIC
8. Target Folder Location = Create a folder for each user under root path
9. Root Path = \\ServerName\Home$
10. Click Okay and your policy is created.
11. Go to your servers command prompt and type GPUPDATE to refresh the policy.
12. If this is a Terminal or Citrix Server, also do a GPUPDATE on each server.
13. Login as a user for the first time and it should create a folder under HOME$ and with the username. Also the administrator should be able to browse through the contents of that new folder.
14. Right Click the MY DOCUMENT tab and it should point to \\servername\home$\username
Hope this helps....
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