Re: Moving Client Apps and Users Folders

From: Chris Jones (cka691_at_alltel.net)
Date: 03/17/04 

Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 19:01:30 -0500

Dell makes it easy to do a clean install, which doing this will allow you to
choose partition sizes and folder locations, I prefer to setup my systems
rather then some dumbass at Dell.

"shepcon" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:e62b01c40bb1$f9b1ea00$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> I have an unusual problem. I have just received my new
> Dell PowerEdge 700 server from Dell and it's preloaded
> with SBS2003 Premium. Today, while beginning the
> placement of the server, I noticed something somewhat
> dumb on Dell's part. The server has a large RAID5 drive
> with two seperate partitions. The C drive is 8GB and the
> D drive is about 100GB. The folks at Dell loaded
> EVERYTHING on the first partition, including the
> ClientApps and Users folders. I know from previous
> installs of SBS 4.5 and 2000, these location are asked
> while going through the installation process. I would
> really prefer these folders being on the larger
> partition, especially the Users share because I know it
> will grow substatially for my client.
>
> Is there any way to move those folders and not screw-up
> any of the built-in wizards that write to these folders
> without doing a clean install?
>
> Thanks. 

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