Re: Group Policy TS User Home setting

Have you tried DFS? This may be solution for you.

Jeff Pitsch
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Ragnar wrote:
Yes I know, but I don't like telling this to customers that already manage their settings using Group Policy.

Oh I wish there was a way to ensure that Microsoft put the right functionality into products - but I guess there is a great mass of customers saying just the same...however a date from Microsoft when this functionality would be available would at least be something, but again I know they won't promise nothin'

Thanks for helping me out.

/Ragnar




"Jeff Pitsch" wrote:

I know this is a pain to maintain but you can assign home directories through the user account properties.

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Ragnar wrote:
That is what I thought, too bad Microsoft have not implemented this possibility.

I have several customers that require this (for ts user home) due to home directories consuming so much disk space that you get like 600GB+ disk volumes...

Of course it is possible to divide the users to logon to group of terminal servers configured with a certain home share, however that is tiresome when it comes to administration.

/Ragnar


"Jeff Pitsch" wrote:

Unfortunately it cannot. You can only specify one share per server.

May I ask why you would need multiple shares for the TS profiles anyway?

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Ragnar wrote:
Consider the following scenario. A terminal server Citrix farm, Active Directory Group Policies configured with the "TS User Home" GPO setting - pointing to "\\server\share". The the need for using multiple home shares is required. However the setup does not use any per-user account settings, such as terminal server home/profile settings, logon scripts are configured using GPO, folder redirection, ts roaming profiles and ts home is configured using GPO.

How can this setup support mutiple home shares? Thanks

/Ragnar



"Jeff Pitsch" wrote:

I'm not sure what your asking. The GPO setting already does what your example shows. Maybe if you give an example of exactly what your looking for.

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Ragnar wrote:
Hi

Is there a way using only Group Policy settings to configure multiple home directory shares when using the Computer Configuration setting "TS User Home"? The home directory is a top-level share with subfolder for each home directory. E.g. \\server\user share\%username%.

I know it's possible to use variables for the "TS User Home" Group Policy setting and then use it together with Terminal Services Home Folder per user account, however I don't want to use any per-user account settings.

Can't really see that this have changed with Windows Server 2008 either..

Thanks.

/Ragnar
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