script locations

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Where are logon scripts supposed to be located?
I'm a bit confused about the various locations:

\\domain.local\NETLOGON
\\domain.local\sysvol\domain.loca\scripts
\\domain.local\sysvol\domain.local\Policies\{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}\USER\Scripts\Logon

The first two appear to be the same despite having different "paths",
but the last one is completely different.

Thanks,
PL.
 
That depends, if you have downlevel clients you need to support with
your logon script and you are assigning the logonscript in the user
profile, then NETLOGON is the place.

But if you are assigning it via Group Policy, to win2k clients (or
better) you can use the path to where the script is stored in the
directory.

A third option, useful in a centralized DC deployment --say a branch
office design in which there are multiple sites w/o domain controllers
-- is to use a unc reference to a DFS share. If you have a replica in
each site you're clients will use a same-site copy. Handy if your
scripts complex or you rely on them to do more than map drives.
 
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