Mapping My Documents to Users area

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I am looking to automate a process that we have to carry out, when building a PC for a user we have to map their my documents to their area on our server is there a way to automate this process? I have tried setting up a group policy in AD users>policies>windows settings>folder redirection and then to documents and setting up a basic policy and inputting the relevant path. I did also create a Vbscript to rewrite the documents.library-ms file on the computers both have failed, except the GP worked on windows 8 machines and not windows 7 Does anyone know how we could map my documents autonomously?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 09 '13 at 12:52

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Group Policy is the way to go. Why it fails on your Windows 7 box I can't say, but you can use (run) rsop.msc to troubleshoot GP issues from the client.

answered Aug 09 '13 at 12:52

Trondh

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Did a full strip down of the GPO's and the way in which we setup user's the issue was in AD when creating a user's homeshare they are not given ownership of the area and the user has to have ownership of an area to map to it using a GPO – Ashley.Taylor Aug 09 '13 at 14:59
MS has documented pretty much everything around how to set up folder redirection, and the required permissions on the file share. Here, for example: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj649078.aspx – Trondh Aug 11 '13 at 12:35

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 09 '13 at 14:53

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I think Roaming User Profiles is what you are after.

answered Aug 09 '13 at 14:53

jimbobmcgee

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Mapping My Documents to Users area

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