Folder Redirection

[Candidog]

Very odd issue.

I created an OU for all my user accounts. I then great a Group Policy to redirect 'my documents' to a folder on my server in a under a folder called 'home$'. The path is \\servername\home$ (Which is a hidden share). Then after creation of the policy I ran gpupdate to refresh the policy. I then log in a user under that OU for the first time. It creates the user folder under \\servername\home$ but when I do a properties of the my documents it points to the local drive to document and setting ....

Any ideas why it doing this? Now I know the policy is working because it created the user folder but its not redirecting to the folder?

Any solutions for me???

Greg

 

[ttrsux]

i think, for each user in Active Directory Users and COmputers, you must open their user properties, go to the "Profile" tab and type in \\servername\home$. recently, i did the same thing only a little different. Heres what I did:
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At the "Employees" OU, a "My Documents" folder redirection policy is applied as such:

Basic – Redirect everyone's folder to the same location
Target Folder Location:
Redirect to the following location:
\\servername\%username%$\MyDocs
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the %username% is so the user is automatically directed to the appropriate user's directory (currently logged in user), and the $ is so the share is hidden in the domain.

MAKE SURE YOU CREATE A SEPAREATE FOLDER IN YOUR "HOME" OR "USERS" DIRECTORY FOR EACH USER. THEN GIVE FULL PERMISSIONS ON THAT FOLDER TO THE INTENDED USER.

Now, when the user right-clicks on their My Documents folder, the path will show \\servername\user$\MyDocs

A little extra thing I did was map the H: drive for each user. In Active Directory Users and COmputers, for each user I went to the "Profile" tab and for their "Home Folder" I selected "connect" H: to \\servername\user$

hope that helps.

Dan B.