I guess I'm not clear on what the goal is here. Is the purpose to create an easily accessible shared space or to have a secured folder where a user's files get backed up? If the former, then map a share and put a shortcut on the desktop (for which a script would be nice); if the latter, use redirected My Documents with Offline Files enabled. Most clients that I roll out use both. I usually just map a drive for general shared space and instruct users to save things to the Z drive; there are other shares as well.
I have found that for many organizations, the shared space is really what they use most. I would like to find an easy way to redirect, en mass, the default Save As...location for key apps to the shared space rather than My Documents. Or, how about a way to add locations along the left side of the Save As... window? -- nme _____ From: Brian Desmond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 4:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Desktop folder Creating a shortcut in a logon script would probably be the best route. There's no need to delete it as desktop icons in a user's profile are private to them. An all users shortcut can't be created in a normal user's logon script as the user doesn't have rights. --Brian -----Original Message----- From: Rodriguez, Daniel [EPM/SRM] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 9/7/2004 3:06 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Desktop folder I would think that you would create a script based upon their login credentials. That way, you would provide the mapping when they logged in depending upon what group they were in. We do that here. If there are group of people, such as Finance, we add those people to that group and when they login, check their rights to which group and then do the mappings based on that. Then they have access to the shares that they need when they are logged in. Now, if you want to be slick, just put in their login script to create that icon, and when they log out, remove the icon. That way, if someone else with different credentials/group logs in, they don't get that icon. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jacob Stabl Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 2:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Desktop folder I have a network folder created for staff members that is called "Backup" I want to have this folder mounted as a folder on the desktop of the computer they logon to. Staff members use multiple computers, not always the same one. How/Where do I create a GP to place a folder on the desktop that is redirected to that network share? -- Jacob Stabl Network Engineer Plain Local Schools http://plainlocal.org Work: 330.492.3500 x.383 Cell: 330.704.1278 List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
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