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Group policy preferences 2008 for setting up drives and home directory

Hi does anyone have a really good walkthrough for using group policy 2008 to set up item targeting for different departmental drives and also allowing access to a users directory, (home directory)

Is there a clean way of doing this, at present they use login.scripts which i would like to do away with, our domain functional level is 2008 ,i have seen a few guides, in the background i am doing a robocopy from a 2003 server to 2012, and when this is completed i will set up the group policy preferences for 2008

Can i get some practical steps alongside a link,  a link on its own is something I can really get myself, looking for someone who has carried this out lately?
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Please note that the Home directory is not set via GPP. This part is done within  the ADUC  under the Profile tab.
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yo_bee I'm pretty sure you're referring to login scripts with bat.files

I'm looking to change this, from what i have seen home directories or user folders to put it more accurately can be set by GPP in 2008 r2
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If so I have not seen it. Here is a link that highlights what I am saying. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/816313/how-to-assign-a-home-folder-to-a-user

If you do have an example can you post it?
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http://www.alexcomputerbubble.com/using-group-policy-preferences-gpp-to-map-user-home-drive/

Above one from pber found it before as well

As mentioned it's user folders I'm really looking to get completed
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I have to look at this when I have a computer, but it does look like a solution. Not really a setting in GPO, but a crafty way to leverage GPP.
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Have you tried that article?  Isn't that exactly what you are trying to do?
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