Hi,
Had posted this Q in the Windows Server General Forum however have been advised to post it here.
i would like to set up an home drive for users that will get mapped automatically when user is made a member of a group. Currently when each new user joins the company we have to manually create a home folder, assign the appropriate permissions and
then have the drive mapped for the user. I understand that this can be automated by using GPP and item level targeting with group membership. Basically the users home folder should get created automatically with appropriate permissions to the user and the
drive get mapped as well.
Also we do not want to ADUC for this as this means we still have to go into user properties in AD to enter the path.
Have read this post http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverGP/thread/0363bd69-4559-47a3-b236-82f281d5c874 however it mentions that the users home folder has to manually created. Again a tedious procedure to do each time new users join.
One of answers posted by Adam Way in the general forum was to use folder redirection - this works, but not sure how the redirection settings will affect the user if user is moved to another OU.
Is there a way where we just use \\Server\Home$\%username% and then have this mapped by adding user to a group (eg HomeDriveUsers)
Thanks,