FolderRedirection by local GroupPolicy

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Carsten Lahme

Hi NGs,

in a AD domain enviroment You can use group policies to redirect
folder.
Now what about if I want to use this on a standalone or nt4-domain
member server.

Background:
We have a windows NT domain. There are several Windows 2000
terminalserver as member.
The local folders for the user have not been changed, when installing
the server. So c-drive is running out of diskspace.
Now we want to move the "MyDocuments" of all users and all future user
to d-drive (e.g.: d:\mydocs\%username%).
I hoped to do this by local group policy but I cannot find this option
in there.

Any ideas?

tx ind adv.

Carsten
 
Hi Carsten-

Although there may not be a revealed setting in the local policy snapin,
there are registry keys associate with this. I wood think that they would
likely be the same from NT4 and Windows 2000. I would recommend testing
this before doing this on a production machine.

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a. Have the Domain User logon to your domain on your Windows
2000 Terminal Server and then log them off.

b. Open up "regedt32" on your Windows 2000 Terminal Server and select
"HKEY_USERS".

c. Highlight "HKEY_USERS", select "Registry" and click "Load Hive...".

d. Type in "%userprofile%", select "Open", go one directory level up, open
the
folder for the user you are making changes for and select the "ntuser.dat"
file.

e. Give it some name, e.g. "username_folder_redirection_profile".

f. Go to
"HKEY_USERS\username_folder_redirection_profile\Software\Microsoft\Windows\C
urr
rentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" hive and modify the folder
redirection
in the right panel accordingly.

g. Highlight "HKEY_USERS\username_folder_redirection_profile", select
"Registry" and click "Unload Hive".

h. Have that user log back in to verify if folder redirection works. Do it
for
every user.
 
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