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Subject: [gptalk] User home folder duplication after a OU move

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03/11/2010 3:10 PM
THE TOPO One domain 2 DC's Redirection of APPDATA, MY DOCUMENTS, DESKTOP and START MENU control by a GPO (user configuration) Each of those redirect to a specific folder name synchro_APPDATA, synchro_DESKTOP etc.... in the user home folder on the domain controler in the right OU depending of a user group membership. We have multiple OU's having 43 differents schools to manage. One school = one OU. Sometime has you can imagine people moves, are relocated from on working area to another (one school to another one). Lets me point step by step what is done when it is happening. A person change working area. What is done is this In Active Directory step 1- The person is changed from is old school OU to its new one to receive all the GPOs (the common one (for all the OU) and the specifics to this school(this OU). step 2- Our configuration is made this way: depending of which group the person is member of, the redirection is done at the right school folder with a folder name after its username ("home folder") with the 4 specifics redirected folders in it. It is not really a home folder mainly a folder containing the 4 redirected folders mentionned above. The user don't usually access this "home folder". The user act as if he was saving locally on the Desktop or in My Documents. So at step 2.... the person is moved from its old group to its new one in Active Directory so that the redirection point to the right place the next time the user log in. On the DC step 3- A copy of its home folder is manually copied to his new school folder step 4- And last its old home folder is renamed. Keeping it for a couple of days before erasing it(juste in case...you know what it is . Important to note here that the home folder of the user cannot be rename if the user is still logged on, so we know he isn't. THE SITUATION The problem is this.... Say we are the next morning after we hade made the 4 steps mentionned above. The user log in. On the DC we see another home folder being made in its now old school folder because the one usally there has been renamed (by us at step 3). But... without all the user's thing in it because we have move them. If the user work for the day without stopping his session and bothering not seing all his stuff and not calling IT about it(yes it happens! and make some new documents it all goes right it on the Desktop's or in My Documents' redirected folders in this newly made home folder. It's not was is expected. The user now log out. Now say we are still another day after all this The user log in again Now the new redirection made by the GPO is up and running....everything now point to the right place. now THAT IS what is expected in the first place, the user has access to all is old stuff that was move in step 3. But.... not at the documents that he made the last time he logged in. This duplication of the home folder ends in documents in two differents places. THE QUESTIONS How can we prevent this new home folder to be made and let the new GPO(new redirections) make his way the first time the user log in after having done the changes we made in steps 1 to 4? It is as if the new GPO on the first logging after the changes arrive too late in the logging process resulting in the situation where the home folder of the user is recreated before the new redirection push by the GPO is knowned by the system. Is there a way to force it to be in effect before the user log in again or at least in the very beginning of the logging process? The user may be log or not when the changes are made....the solutions has to be working in both situations. Any advice or solution will be welcome. I' m very sorry if this issue has been already answered before, please redirect me to right thread if it has. ================================================== Gabriel Guénette

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