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how to automate the creation of a new share name on an existing user home directory

I need a script that will automate the addition of a new share name. Presently the home directories are name 'FirstInitialLastname' and shared 'FirstInitialLastname$' i want to add a new share of 'Firstname.Lastname$' for all my users on Windows server 2008r2
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ekleiner

Unless you have a specific reason for using a separate share for each user, why do something like \\servername\users$\username. This way you will not have to create a separate share for each new user and will only have one to manage.

tshdennis

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I don't understnad where you are coming from here.

We are moving to a new user name convention of Firstname.Lastname from firstInitialLastname.
the logon script could be change to find the present share name, but i am not sure how that is done. To map their home directory in the logon script we are using: net use u: \\pcserver2\%username%$

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tshdennis

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Thank you. I can see that this would be very efficient. But I still need to rename all the home directories. I would like to be able to script that job but I am not very familiar with scripting. Can you assist me with that?

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