User and Company Files

Hi

First post so hope I am successful

I am adding a member 2000 server to domain according to white paper and
would like to move user and company folder to new server. Question is how do
I point old and new users to the new server? When clients log on there
folders appear on desk top but would I have to go around each client and
redirect these folders?

Any help appreciated.

Jeff
Sun Sep 28 22:03:30 CDT 2003

I'm sure you won't like this answer but, unless you have some skill with
VBscripting, you are going to have to go to each workstation and replace the
old shortcuts with new ones. Either that or you would need to do some nifty
batch file scripting to remove the old shortcuts during a logon script and
replace them or simply redirect drive letters to the new locations.

I think the majority of your concerns will be solving the issues above, but
for the server end of it, you simply create a shared resource on the new
server for Company and that's it. This folder is really just a simple share,
nothing special, and the link file put on every desktop isn't sophisticated,
and there's no special security applied.

As for the Users folder, the use of these folders depends upon how your
organization has used them. In some place, folks use them for data files.
Others sites use them as profile folders. Either way, you could reconfigure
the folder locations using either Group Policies or the legacy features in
the User Profile tab for each user. Again...this requires manually hitting
each user item in the Users and Groups MMC console (aka: Administrator's
Console for AD information).

Now, if everything I have said has simply confused you, then I think the
answer here is really that you didn't pick a simple issue to try on your
first post. :)

Other than by using scripting with VBscript to address (a) add user wizard
(b) existing user configuration on the SBS (c) reconfigure each user desktop
at each computer.....there's not feature or simple way to revise the
information you are asking about. Adding the new shares on the new server is
trivial compared to reconfiguring the way that SBS automatically sets those
shortcuts for each user.


"All SBSed Out" <sbs@sbs.com> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> First post so hope I am successful
>
> I am adding a member 2000 server to domain according to white paper and
> would like to move user and company folder to new server. Question is how
do
> I point old and new users to the new server? When clients log on there
> folders appear on desk top but would I have to go around each client and
> redirect these folders?
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
>

Chad
Sun Sep 28 22:01:31 CDT 2003

TTBOMK, you cannot have the company & user shortcuts that SBS places on the
desktop point to a different server. You should be able to use logon
scripts to place shortcuts to the new shares on user's desktops, or manually
add the shortcuts to each user's desktop

--
Chad A Gross - SBS Rocks!

Lerman's Law of Technology: Any technical problem can be overcome
given enough time and money. Corollary: You are never given enough
time or money.



All SBSed Out wrote:
> Hi
>
> First post so hope I am successful
>
> I am adding a member 2000 server to domain according to white paper
> and would like to move user and company folder to new server.
> Question is how do I point old and new users to the new server? When
> clients log on there folders appear on desk top but would I have to
> go around each client and redirect these folders?
>
> Any help appreciated.