Re: Overriding the home directory

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Hi Vera,

Thx for your reply.

But i believe i have stated that the policy is applied according to GPresult.
I even rebooted the server to make sure that the policy is fully applied.
It is a verry strange behavior.

The one thing i haven't done (been planning to, but haven't gotten around to
it), is checking if the registry is properly set according to the policy.

Maybe usefull, The system that have been tested, are all Windows Server
2003, some sp1 and some SP2. There is no differnce pointing to the service
pack, some SP2's get the correct settings, some don't.

When i run the group policy result wizzard in the GPMC it clearly states the
following:
Windows Components/Terminal Serviceshide
Policy Setting Winning GPO
TS User Home Directory Enabled New Group Policy Object
Location: On the Local machine
Home Dir Root Path: D:\UserHome
If home path is on the network, specify drive letter for the mapped drive.
Drive Letter




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"Vera Noest [MVP]" wrote:

Run gpupdate, and if that doesn't help, run gpresult to see which
policies are applied.

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=?Utf-8?B?SnVkZw==?= <Judg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 18
sep 2008 in microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:


I hope someone can help me on this one.

I our Environment the homefolder is set within the userobject in
AD. Now as we are an International organisation, people from all
over are connecting to our datacenter using Citrix and Terminal
Services. We saw that the mapping of the homefolder is
decreasing the performance of the servers.

To stop te mapping of the Homedrive which is set in the user
profile, we created a local policy on the server to set the
Terminal services home drive, as it overrules the home directory
setting in the user object. I have tested this on one server and
it is working as expected, now i was trying it on another server
and there it does not seem to work.

I can see that the local policy is applied, but when i open the
explorer is still see the home drive mapped too the server as
set in the userobject.

Again according to my knowledge and supported by numerous MS
articles, it should work.

In a test environment a placed a policy with that setting on the
OU lvl, and there i get the same strange behaviour. On one it
works while not on the other (both servers residing in the OU
where the policy is applied to).

.

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