How to change profle and home folder directories to a U: drive?

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I have a Terminal Server and I want it so that when a user logs into it, the
profile and home folderis stored on a different drive on the same server. So
far I have created a U: drive under the profile tab (on the AD server) to
store the Home Folder. I have tried multiple other combinations of mapping
the profile paths as well, but even if the profile looks to be stored on the
U:drive, when files are saved to my documents, it is still stored on the C:
drive. Please advise.

Thank you
 
This is a bit of a thorny issue, because you have to realize that some
of the HKCU settings may be hard-coded to the C: drive, as is my case
with Corel Office (Wordperfect), as well as a few other programs. Once
you have determined this to not be an issue, open Registry Editor and
go to the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\ and modify the entries for each user to
reflect the change. Or, you may just want to do export the reg key, do
a find and replace (replace %systemdrive% with U:), and then import it.
Good luck!!!
 
I should also add that I am running windows 2003 as my AD and Terminal
Server, if that makes any difference. Theres no possible way to do this all
thru the AD profile settings? It seems like microsoft has put a solution
there but I am just not sure how to get it.
 
Also, I might have some programs are probably hard coded like in your
situation. What did you do to work around that?
thx
 
There's no easy fix through AD. In fact, I believe there is a MSKB
article somewhere about the procedure that I described. And to answer
your second question: This is the big reason that I have NOT done this
yet. It will probably take some sort of find and replace type of logon
scripts to make the changes to the user's hive, as they are not
available until the user logs in (stored in the ntuser.dat of each
user's profile dir, and loaded upon logon).
 
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