A way to avoid manually creating users folders for roaming profile

When setting up roaming profiles with folder redirection, is there a way to
avoid having to manually create each users folder (and setting their folder
permissions) manually?


Thanks

Preferably by setting pat to "\\server\profiles\%username%, so that when
they first login, it will create the folders for them and give them
permission.

"skulmat" wrote:

> When setting up roaming profiles with folder redirection, is there a way to
> avoid having to manually create each users folder (and setting their folder
> permissions) manually?
>
>
> Thanks

Preferably by setting pat to "\\server\profiles\%username%, so that when
they first login, it will create the folders for them and give them
permission.

"skulmat" wrote:

> When setting up roaming profiles with folder redirection, is there a way to
> avoid having to manually create each users folder (and setting their folder
> permissions) manually?
>
>
> Thanks

"skulmat" <skulmat@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A9A0B521-4A3F-4510-9FB6-31C05D6D251D@microsoft.com...
> Preferably by setting pat to "\\server\profiles\%username%, so that when
> they first login, it will create the folders for them and give them
> permission.
>
> "skulmat" wrote:
>
>> When setting up roaming profiles with folder redirection, is there a way
>> to
>> avoid having to manually create each users folder (and setting their
>> folder
>> permissions) manually?
>>
>>
>> Thanks


Actually, if you set a home folder using the %username% variable, such as to
\\server\profiles\%username%, the system will automatically create the
folder, and provide the user account with FC to the folder when you hit the
OK button, and not when the user first logs on.

Actually, I would suggest to avoid using Roaming profiles, especially in
conjunction with Folder Redirection. Folder Redirection should be sufficient
for a solution where a user will always have access to their MyDocs and
other folders you specify in the redirect policy, no matter where they
login, as well as while offline.

Here's a little tutorial on redirection. I hope you find it helpful.

Folder Redirection
http://msmvps.com/blogs/acefekay/arc...direction.aspx


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