My Documents Redirection question

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Jeff

I have a question regarding folder redirection in Win
2K. We are redirecting My Documents to the users home
drive but we noticed it wasnt working. Our path to
redirect was \\%HOMESHARE%%HOMEPATH% (we need to use the
variables b/c we have multiple locations). I found the
\\ before the %HOMESHARE% are causing the problem since %
HOMESHARE% contains two backslashes. I tried setting the
Group Policy to use %HOMESHARE%%HOMEPATH% but it spits up
an error stating the patch must be a UNC or it may not
work correctly if the folder cant be found (this is the
case after trying it). I then set the policy
using "Redirect to the users home folder" but I found the
office apps are not going to the redirected My Documents
folder, rather going to the local one. I looked at the
best practices sections but they dont offer much for
redirecting with multiple locations.

Can someone please direct me (no pun intended) in the
right direction? Thanks.

Jeff
 
Hi Jeff, You can't use more than one variable with in the redirection path
for Folder Redirection. My Office Apps uses the redirected location by
default. If you right click at the My Documents at the desktop for a users
effected by the particular policy. dose it point to the home directory?
 
Chriss,

Even if I use one variable %HOMESHARE% with out the two
leading \\'s, it spits out the message stating the target
is not a UNC path. I may need to create a new variable
w/o the leading \\'s. Thoughts?
 
Hi Jeff ,
Sorry you have to use valid UNC \\server\share then you add ONE variable
like \\server\share\%username%

What is your goal here?
 
Chris,

My goal is to redirect My Documents using a variable. I
had a feeling I needed to use a UNC path so I'm going to
have to create a new variable to point to the users home
directory, excluding the leading \\'s. I just wanted to
check in here to make sure I wasnt losing my mind.

Thanks.

Jeff
 
Can someone please direct me (no pun intended) in the
right direction? Thanks.

Jeff
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in active directory i define the home folder as:-

x: drive - \\server\share\%username%

then with group policy i redirect everyone to the same location of x:\
 
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