Changing location of redirected My Documents

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Hi,

I have all my users My Documents redirected to our server
via GPO. We now have a new server and I wish to change the
location of the My Documents from the old server to the
other. How do I do this? What pitfalls are there? Thanks.
 
Hi,
We now have a new server and I wish to change the location of the My
Documents from the old server to the other. How do I do this?
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I just did this.

If you can transfer all your files at once (out of hours when users
are not using them) this is the procedure. It also depends on whether
you are running 2000 or 2003 server.

1> On the Server, create a new folder for the Users. Remember with
Windows 2003 the Permissions are inherited in users folders (unlike
2K). Therefore on this upper folder you should untick inherit and set
the permissions as Administrator=Full Control and,
Users=Advanced=Read=THIS FOLDER ONLY.
2> Map a drive to the old servers users share.
3> Use XCopy with the users folders/files with the Ownership/security
switch as well as any others you want.
4> If you use a Mapped Drive in the Account Properties of each user,
you will need to change that for each user to the new drive. Luckily
with Windows 2003 you can do a large amount at once. For Windows 2000
you may have to do them manually because scripting doesn’t work with
the %username% for folders.
5> Change you group policy folder redirection to the new folders.
6> TEST to see if it is working.

Cheers,

Lara
 
Okay but I have seen somewhere that if you change the
target path in the GPO that AD will move the data and
folders to the new location. Is this correct or do I need
to use a file copy utility like Robocopy? Thanks.


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Hi,
location of the
My do this?

I just did this.

If you can transfer all your files at once (out of hours when users
are not using them) this is the procedure. It also depends on whether
you are running 2000 or 2003 server.

1> On the Server, create a new folder for the Users. Remember with
Windows 2003 the Permissions are inherited in users folders (unlike
2K). Therefore on this upper folder you should untick inherit and set
the permissions as Administrator=Full Control and,
Users=Advanced=Read=THIS FOLDER ONLY.
2> Map a drive to the old servers users share.
3> Use XCopy with the users folders/files with the Ownership/security
switch as well as any others you want.
4> If you use a Mapped Drive in the Account Properties of each user,
you will need to change that for each user to the new drive. Luckily
with Windows 2003 you can do a large amount at once. For Windows 2000
you may have to do them manually because scripting doesn't work with
the %username% for folders.
5> Change you group policy folder redirection to the new folders.
6> TEST to see if it is working.

Cheers,

Lara

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Hi,
Okay but I have seen somewhere that if you change the target path in
the GPO that AD will move the data and folders to the new location. Is
this correct or do I need to use a file copy utility like Robocopy?
Thanks.
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AD does have that option if you look in Folder Redirection. You can
test it. However, if I am not mistaken all it does is move the
Contents of the UsersProfile\My Documents to the
\\server\users\Mydocuments. If Folder Redirection is in place
already and you want to change it, I don’t think it will move the
folders from one share to another.

I have never used Robocopy. I perfer XCopy because it did my 1200
users without a problem.

Cheers,

Lara
 
We just moved 250 of our users at a remote site, by changing the target
path. All the files moved when the user logged on. It did take about 10
minutes or so for the larger folders to move these were between 3 and 10 GB.
Hope this helps.
 
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