Create Home Directories with Firstname.Lastname?

[brock029]

As I have slowly been learning more about windows server administration and our network admin quit on 2/1/2013 I recently discovered we have been creating home directories in the slowest most backward way we possibly could.

The way they have always done it here is open Computers and Users create the new hire's account (generally new hire classes are 25 people and every week). Then remote into the server that holds the home directories. Go to E:\Home, then create a new folder name it Firstname.Lastname, go to sharing, share the folder, add the dollar sign to the share name, open the sharing security, give domain admins full control then the specific user read/write. Then rinse, wash, and repeat 25 times or more a week.

So just simply doing a quick google search http://support.microsoft.com/kb/298403 you can chop out the 1000 step process in 1 step.

Great, but, just for the sake of keeping things looking the same would it be possible to use something like setting the home directory to \\servername\home\%firstname%.%lastname% ? If not then I don't mind setting it to %username%.

Thanks!

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

I just do it under the users account props in ADUC.....home folder, %username%..or if preferring to do it manually...I do it to match their login username (typically first init last name)

Doing it under their account props in ADUC....it sets all the permissions for you (assuming the root of the users shares was setup properly in the first place)

 

[brock029]

I just do it under the users account props in ADUC.....home folder, %username%..or if preferring to do it manually...I do it to match their login username (typically first init last name)

Doing it under their account props in ADUC....it sets all the permissions for you (assuming the root of the users shares was setup properly in the first place)

Yeah thats exactly what my plan is, but because the current ones that already exist are firstname.lastname I was hoping i could do it through ADUC and instead of %username% use if possible some other tag that gets firstname and lastname. so like %Firstname%.%Lastname% I couldnt find if that is even something you can use. Becuase here their user name is their employee ID so like c00######.

 

[Zratch]

I personnaly would go with \\server\users\%username%, and if possible I would change all the firstname.lastname to that. Might take a lot of time, I know it took me some, but at least after that it will be the same for everyone and save you a lot of time. Just make sure to transfer all the files to the appropriate location and delete the old firstname.last... folder.

 

[brock029]

I personnaly would go with \\server\users\%username%, and if possible I would change all the firstname.lastname to that. Might take a lot of time, I know it took me some, but at least after that it will be the same for everyone and save you a lot of time. Just make sure to transfer all the files to the appropriate location and delete the old firstname.last... folder.

Thats exactly what I was thinking I would end up having to do, will probably take a few days to get done between everything else.