Overriding the home directory

[Judg]

I hope someone can help me on this one.

I our Environment the homefolder is set within the userobject in AD.
Now as we are an International organisation, people from all over are
connecting to our datacenter using Citrix and Terminal Services. We saw that
the mapping of the homefolder is decreasing the performance of the servers.

To stop te mapping of the Homedrive which is set in the user profile, we
created a local policy on the server to set the Terminal services home drive,
as it overrules the home directory setting in the user object. I have tested
this on one server and it is working as expected, now i was trying it on
another server and there it does not seem to work.

I can see that the local policy is applied, but when i open the explorer is
still see the home drive mapped too the server as set in the userobject.

Again according to my knowledge and supported by numerous MS articles, it
should work.

In a test environment a placed a policy with that setting on the OU lvl, and
there i get the same strange behaviour. On one it works while not on the
other (both servers residing in the OU where the policy is applied to).
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[Vera Noest [MVP]]

Re: Overriding the home directory

Run gpupdate, and if that doesn't help, run gpresult to see which
policies are applied.

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=?Utf-8?B?SnVkZw==?= <Judg@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on 18
sep 2008 in microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

>
> I hope someone can help me on this one.
>
> I our Environment the homefolder is set within the userobject in
> AD. Now as we are an International organisation, people from all
> over are connecting to our datacenter using Citrix and Terminal
> Services. We saw that the mapping of the homefolder is
> decreasing the performance of the servers.
>
> To stop te mapping of the Homedrive which is set in the user
> profile, we created a local policy on the server to set the
> Terminal services home drive, as it overrules the home directory
> setting in the user object. I have tested this on one server and
> it is working as expected, now i was trying it on another server
> and there it does not seem to work.
>
> I can see that the local policy is applied, but when i open the
> explorer is still see the home drive mapped too the server as
> set in the userobject.
>
> Again according to my knowledge and supported by numerous MS
> articles, it should work.
>
> In a test environment a placed a policy with that setting on the
> OU lvl, and there i get the same strange behaviour. On one it
> works while not on the other (both servers residing in the OU
> where the policy is applied to).

 

[Judg]

Re: Overriding the home directory

Hi Vera,

Thx for your reply.

But i believe i have stated that the policy is applied according to GPresult.
I even rebooted the server to make sure that the policy is fully applied.
It is a verry strange behavior.

The one thing i haven't done (been planning to, but haven't gotten around to
it), is checking if the registry is properly set according to the policy.

Maybe usefull, The system that have been tested, are all Windows Server
2003, some sp1 and some SP2. There is no differnce pointing to the service
pack, some SP2's get the correct settings, some don't.

When i run the group policy result wizzard in the GPMC it clearly states the
following:
Windows Components/Terminal Serviceshide
Policy Setting Winning GPO
TS User Home Directory Enabled New Group Policy Object
Location: On the Local machine
Home Dir Root Path: D:\UserHome
If home path is on the network, specify drive letter for the mapped drive.
Drive Letter




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"Vera Noest [MVP]" wrote:

> Run gpupdate, and if that doesn't help, run gpresult to see which
> policies are applied.
>
> _________________________________________________________
> Vera Noest
> MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
> TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
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>
> =?Utf-8?B?SnVkZw==?= <Judg@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on 18
> sep 2008 in microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:
>
> >
> > I hope someone can help me on this one.
> >
> > I our Environment the homefolder is set within the userobject in
> > AD. Now as we are an International organisation, people from all
> > over are connecting to our datacenter using Citrix and Terminal
> > Services. We saw that the mapping of the homefolder is
> > decreasing the performance of the servers.
> >
> > To stop te mapping of the Homedrive which is set in the user
> > profile, we created a local policy on the server to set the
> > Terminal services home drive, as it overrules the home directory
> > setting in the user object. I have tested this on one server and
> > it is working as expected, now i was trying it on another server
> > and there it does not seem to work.
> >
> > I can see that the local policy is applied, but when i open the
> > explorer is still see the home drive mapped too the server as
> > set in the userobject.
> >
> > Again according to my knowledge and supported by numerous MS
> > articles, it should work.
> >
> > In a test environment a placed a policy with that setting on the
> > OU lvl, and there i get the same strange behaviour. On one it
> > works while not on the other (both servers residing in the OU
> > where the policy is applied to).
>

 

[Vera Noest [MVP]]

Re: Overriding the home directory

Mm, strange. And the permissions on D:\UserHome are OK? Nothing in
the EventLog?
I'd enable verbose logging of the user environment:

221833 - How to enable user environment debug logging in retail
builds of Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=221833

and follow all other steps in this article:

250842 - Troubleshooting Group Policy Application Problems
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=250842
_________________________________________________________
Vera Noest
MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
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=?Utf-8?B?SnVkZw==?= <Judg@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on 18
sep 2008 in microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> Hi Vera,
>
> Thx for your reply.
>
> But i believe i have stated that the policy is applied according
> to GPresult. I even rebooted the server to make sure that the
> policy is fully applied. It is a verry strange behavior.
>
> The one thing i haven't done (been planning to, but haven't
> gotten around to it), is checking if the registry is properly
> set according to the policy.
>
> Maybe usefull, The system that have been tested, are all Windows
> Server 2003, some sp1 and some SP2. There is no differnce
> pointing to the service pack, some SP2's get the correct
> settings, some don't.
>
> When i run the group policy result wizzard in the GPMC it
> clearly states the following:
> Windows Components/Terminal Serviceshide
> Policy Setting Winning GPO
> TS User Home Directory Enabled New Group Policy Object
> Location: On the Local machine
> Home Dir Root Path: D:\UserHome
> If home path is on the network, specify drive letter for the
> mapped drive. Drive Letter