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AD Home Folder Profile - Map as Persistent?
Hi All,
Have seen a few posts around but was hoping someone may have a solution here for us. We have our users home drives mapped through AD in the profile tab. We did use offline folders however we are phasing them out as our network is so dispersed over small WAN links it is killing the links and causing data loss as the home drives are toggling between offlie and online mode while in office.
Problem we have is now the Home Drive is not persistent and are not appearing when users log in at home and connect to VPN using 3g.
Currently we are setting up shortcuts on desktop with Batch files but its messy. We also cannot use Group Policy to map these Home Drives due to the way our homedrives are stored:
\\domain\homedrives\STATE\
The state field varies and isn't neccessarily 100% accurate as AD is not 100% correct.
Running 2008R2 Functional Forest and Domain
Any ideas? Open to almost any suggestion right now.
Have seen a few posts around but was hoping someone may have a solution here for us. We have our users home drives mapped through AD in the profile tab. We did use offline folders however we are phasing them out as our network is so dispersed over small WAN links it is killing the links and causing data loss as the home drives are toggling between offlie and online mode while in office.
Problem we have is now the Home Drive is not persistent and are not appearing when users log in at home and connect to VPN using 3g.
Currently we are setting up shortcuts on desktop with Batch files but its messy. We also cannot use Group Policy to map these Home Drives due to the way our homedrives are stored:
\\domain\homedrives\STATE\
The state field varies and isn't neccessarily 100% accurate as AD is not 100% correct.
Running 2008R2 Functional Forest and Domain
Any ideas? Open to almost any suggestion right now.
ASKER
Yeah that is something i was going to, but would still mean I need to touch 100+ computers manually. Was hoping would be somethign a bit more automatic in AD or AdsiEdit or something
yes you can, with domain GroupPolicy, same thing,
put batch file on \\domain_IP\SYSVOL\domain\
put batch file on \\domain_IP\SYSVOL\domain\
ASKER
No sorry, its not the domain part in the script that is the problem, it is the State part. all one domain, but differnet states so the DFS path is different for different users.
Group the users according to their places so you have all the users using the same DFS path in the same group. Use the IsMember function in vbs logon scripts to map the homedrive.
This is explaned here and the code to use: http://www.rlmueller.net/Logon6.htm
This is explaned here and the code to use: http://www.rlmueller.net/Logon6.htm
I found this as well: http://www.scriptinganswers.com/vault/Logon%20Scripts/
Check out the "Map drives by groups" - fourth from bottom.
Check out the "Map drives by groups" - fourth from bottom.
ASKER
No Way to have a script that picks up what is written in the AD Home Profile field?
Our AD is a mess and its going to be a nightmare to try to group users
Our AD is a mess and its going to be a nightmare to try to group users
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My solution was the easiest to use without custom scripts
Thank you I will add to this;
In your GPO
Create a Map drive to map the H:\ %homeshare% select "Replace".
In your GPO
Create a Map drive to map the H:\ %homeshare% select "Replace".
in Startup put batch file with command to map network drive
example:
NET USE Q: \\domain\homedrives\STATE\