Hello all and thanks for your time and expertise.
I work in a school system with approximately 10000 students. Starting with the intermediate students through seniors - I'm in really bad need of an efficient process to manage student home folders. Please give me your best practices or tools for creating, and them upon graduation - deleting student home folders.
Here's a plan someone brought up. Please let me know what you think and if there's a better way - Please share. Thanks.
I work in a school system with at least 20 buildings in a metropolitan network. We've recently upgraded the links between our buildings to a GB. We were looking for a way to simplify management of the student home folders. Here's a plan I've been thinking about and I would appreciate your input/recommendations:
1 - Centralize home folders for intermediate students through high school in the following format: \\server\home$\students\%username% - All of these students' home folders would be stored on our NAS server utilizing a DFS Namespace. This way if we needed more space we could add another server to the namespace and just replicate. Students would all be in one STUDENT home folder.
2 - Add graduation year to the description property for their user accounts from the general tab so they can be filtered in this manner. And you can do this by highlighting all the accounts and adding this property because the kids are currently in OUs designating their graduation year.
3 - Create a Graduated OU. When the current cycle ends, for example 2013 - you do a filtered search for 2013 students and move them to the Graduated OU. Then you can delete their accounts from AD. My issue as I type this is how do I know which folders to delete from the STUDENT folder.