Re: Home directiories and folder redirection

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Phil wrote:
Patrick

Do you set the path in group policy instead??

Jeff, lanwench

i am getting slightly confused here , apologies, so please stay with me

do we ignore the user home directories tab nowadays in ADUC? lanwench, you said you don't use home directories any more so i am presuming that you just set a group policy to redirect my documents for all users (maybe depended on group membership...

That really depends. Remember that Group Policy affects everyone that logs into that server. If your home directories are spread across multiple file servers, then ADUC is the best bet. Redirecting My documents is not setting the home directory. Remember the home directory is also a variable that is used by TS for certain functions.


am i on the right lines here??

Jeff, when you say ts enviroments will rediect the home folder but hide the home folder , you mean the TS Home folder
how would you hide it?

There is a group policy element that can be set to hide certain drives. That is what I mean. It's not done often but I have seen it done strictly so that users will not know it's there, TS can still use it, but users can't delete the contents and screw themselves up.


"Jeff Pitsch" wrote:


Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] wrote:
Phil <Phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
hope someone can enlighten me here as i'm quite new to Terminal
servers

Is rootdrv2.cmd still valid in Citrix. If so do you still have to
set it on every TS. I thought that TS home drive Group policy
setting would now be the preferred opion.
Yes it's valid but it's never used and yes you would have to set it for each server. It's used for backwards compatibility and nothing else.

I'm not a Citrix person, so I don't know, sorry.
Leading on with the next question

If users have their home drives mapped in ADUC say to H drive, is
there a point in setting up TS home drive as the users would surely
have 2 locations to keep their documents in??.
If you specify the normal home directory and the TS home directory you will not get two home directories. The normal directory gets mapped when a user logs into a workstation or TS if no TS home directory has been specified. The TS home directory, if specified, overrides the normal home directory.

If you use folder redirection it doesn't matter if you have a home directory set at all. I don't use them anymore.

See "How to dynamically create security-enhanced redirected folders by using folder redirection in Windows 2000 and in Windows Server 2003"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/274443


My take is if they used pure TS then use the TS home drive
If I mixture of 2 then Bothe ADUC home drives and TS Home drives but
redirect theTS Home drive to the Users Home Directory
Well, they could both point to the same place, but as mentioned, I don't see much point in using home directories anymore. You can still map a drive to the user's folder in the login script (e.g., net use h: "\\server\home$\%username%\My Documents" /persistent:no )
Finally AppData - do you redirect it or not?? When would and
wouldn't you?
Home directories are used to store certain TS specific settings like the redirected Windows directory that holds .ini files. Many times, TS environments will redirect the home folder but HIDE the home folder. why you ask? So users don't "clean up" there home drive and delete that windows directory. It's not critical but it is done. Also it's done because otherwise these settings get stored in the My doc's folder, which again, may get "cleaned up".

I do, always, unless the user has a laptop. Same with desktop.
I am trying to figure out the best way but am confusing myself..
Help..
Hope this helps somewhat. Sorry I don't know Citrix.


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