I'm taking over for someone who has left the organization.
They have used two methods for setting up a home folder for each AD user. I think they did this because over time they learned some things and just changed the way they did things. I'm not sure, but I'm trying to understand which is best to use going forward.
We use 2003 - and 2008R2 environment for AD.
We have a folder on our server called D:\userfiles
In this folder we have each department with a folder eg.
D:\userfiles\hr
D:\userfiles\accting
D:\userfiles\department1
etc.
When we set up a User in AD we click on the Profile tab and then select H: as the "Home Folder" and then in the To box enter one of two paths.
My question is which path is best. They both seem to work.
The one with the $ at the end I think creates a share in the shared folder when you look at shared folders in the computer management on the server for that user.
Anyway I'm not really sure which to use or what the difference is. I would like to use one or other.
We also have a script that is run when people log on but I'm unclear if that is just a red herring in this discussion.
Thanks.
