Comments on: PowerShell One-Liner for Finding Users with a Home Drive Configured in Active Directory Users and Computers

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 11 May 2020 04:51:28 +0000

You just saved my final project for school! Oh my gosh! Thank you!

By: Carl Webster

Carl Webster — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 20:28:03 +0000

In reply to Mike Leone.

I am talking only about setting the user’s home drive via GPO.

Computer Configuration/Adminstrative Templates/System/User Profiles/Set user home folder.

I would rather make a change to one GPO setting than try to change any user setting in ADUC.

Webster

By: Mike Leone

Mike Leone — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 19:33:56 +0000

So let me see if I’ve got this straight … I shouldn’t list the home folder in ADUC, because that results in slower logons. And instead I should use folder re-direction in a GP to specify the various parts of the profile (documents, desktop, etc), and drive mappings in a GP to assign it a drive letter?

We list the home folder in ADUC, and assign it as drive Z:, for consistency. We also do folder re-direction via GP. You’re saying doing all this via GP only speeds up logon speeds? And just leave the home folder section alone and blank?

By: Max

Max — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 12:48:50 +0000

Hi Carl,

thank you for your post!

A small improvement would be to set encoding to UTF8, ascii doesn’t know üöäß etc.