What is a users home folder

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Amadir Njul

What is the Home Folder and what influence does it have if I move it..
I'm a little confused when about "Home folder", profile and My documents..
 
Home folder is more of a legacy thing nowadays. Before we had My Documents,
we would set the home folder to a server location so that a user could logon
anywhere in the domain and still be able to access the home folder, e.g.
\\printserver\home\%username%

This is still there for backward compatibility, although I believe the new
and preferred way of doing this is through GPO folder-redirection (redirect
My Docs to a server).

The profile is where the actual profile is stored. If you configure this to
be a server, changes will be uploaded and downloaded to and from the server.
This way, your desktop, screensaver, etc. follow you regardless of
workstation. This could prove quite cumbersome because of the My Documents,
My Music, etc. so is best used in conjunction with GPO folder-redirection.

Hope this helps,


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What is the Home Folder and what influence does it have if I move it..
I'm a little confused when about "Home folder", profile and My documents..
 
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Amadir Njul said:
What is the Home Folder and what influence does it have if I move it..
I'm a little confused when about "Home folder", profile and My documents..
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The Home folder is technically the default place that
applications created for legacy Windows were supposed
to store a users files BY DEFAULT.

That is really all -- the user should be able to make another
choice but apps (used to) default to that location which
is set in a domain by changing the account properties.

It was (largely) superceded by My Documents (which
normally overlaps with it) because My Documents has
more flexibility in that it can be divided for different
kinds of content, e.g., Ap Data, My Pictures, My PDA
(or some such) etc.
 
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