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Tim Kalligonis
A business decision has been made to change all user names from
first initial + 5 chars of last name +2 digit increment
to
first initial + 5 chars of last name + last 4 digits of SSN
One of our problems is the GPO that redirects the users' MyDocuments to
their home directory on a file share.
Currently the Policy rediects to \\servername\users\%username%
Our concern is if the users will still be able to access their home
directory.
Client side we have a mix of Win2K and XP machines.
After doing some testing this is what I have found.
1. Change a user account to new format.
2. Log into an XP machine with new account.
3. Check My Documents - all contents are still there.
4. Properties of My Documents to check the path -
\\servername\users\OLDUSERNAME
5. Seems to work fine except the username does not matchup with the home
directory.
1. Log into a Win2K machine
2. Check My Documents - it is empty
3. Properties of My Documents to check the path -
\\servername\users\NEWUSERNAME
4. Not working - OR maybe it is working the way it is inteneded to.
5. Check \\server\users there is a new NEWUSERNAME directory (empty) and
the existing OLDUSERNAME with documents.
According to the GPO it uses %username%, so if the username is changed then
technically it does not exists on the file share so it creats a new folder.
On the other hand it seems that XP machines are ignoring that part of the
policy and maintaining the path to the original folder and not creating the
new folder under the user's new name.
Here's the questions:
1. What is the easiest way to change the user accounts and maintain the
users' access to their home directories (doesn't really matter what path,
users could care less what the path is as long as their stuff is there) ?
2. Why is this acting different on Win2K versus XP?
first initial + 5 chars of last name +2 digit increment
to
first initial + 5 chars of last name + last 4 digits of SSN
One of our problems is the GPO that redirects the users' MyDocuments to
their home directory on a file share.
Currently the Policy rediects to \\servername\users\%username%
Our concern is if the users will still be able to access their home
directory.
Client side we have a mix of Win2K and XP machines.
After doing some testing this is what I have found.
1. Change a user account to new format.
2. Log into an XP machine with new account.
3. Check My Documents - all contents are still there.
4. Properties of My Documents to check the path -
\\servername\users\OLDUSERNAME
5. Seems to work fine except the username does not matchup with the home
directory.
1. Log into a Win2K machine
2. Check My Documents - it is empty
3. Properties of My Documents to check the path -
\\servername\users\NEWUSERNAME
4. Not working - OR maybe it is working the way it is inteneded to.
5. Check \\server\users there is a new NEWUSERNAME directory (empty) and
the existing OLDUSERNAME with documents.
According to the GPO it uses %username%, so if the username is changed then
technically it does not exists on the file share so it creats a new folder.
On the other hand it seems that XP machines are ignoring that part of the
policy and maintaining the path to the original folder and not creating the
new folder under the user's new name.
Here's the questions:
1. What is the easiest way to change the user accounts and maintain the
users' access to their home directories (doesn't really matter what path,
users could care less what the path is as long as their stuff is there) ?
2. Why is this acting different on Win2K versus XP?