Can AD alter the My Documents Path?

[guyvernews]

Dear all,

I am looking for a way to default the "My Documents" Path to another path, can you adjust this in the Active Directory?

Thanks for you time

 

[peterve]

yes, you can define this in a group policy... --------------------------------------------------------------------
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[guyvernews]

Thanks for the tip.

Would there be any other way to do this without group policy?

Thanks

Paul

 

[kjmattson]

If it works for your environment, the easy way to do it is within AD. The AD folder redirection is based on UNC whereas in my environment a specific drive letter mapping is used to identify the location of the users documents. In my case G: always refers to the users home directory regardless of what home server the user has.

The way I do it is to make the redirection part of the default user profile. While signed on as as userA, right click the My Documents desktop icon, choose properties, enter the new location (G:\my documents). Sign on as userB and copy c:\documents and settings\userA to c:\documents and settings\default. Now any new user without an existing profile will obtain the folder redirection.

If the user profile already exists, you could edit HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\Personal to redirect the My Documents folder location. Kevin Mattson
MCP

 

[guyvernews]

Again, Thanks for the tip.

I am in two minds in how to finalise this, but nevertheless at least there are options.

Thanks Kevin.