5.3 Assigning Home Folders

  1. In Administrative Tools > Active Directory Users and Computers, right-click A Black, then select Properties.

  2. Click the Profile tab.

  3. Under Home folder, select Connect, then click the Connect drop-down list and select H:.

  4. For the first user, in the To field, type the UNC path to the HOME_Folders share on your Windows server, followed by %username%.

    For example, the share path on the Windows server used for the development of this guide is \\Windows-DC\Home_Folders$\%username%.

  5. Select the string and copy it to the clipboard by using Ctrl+C.

    For the second and subsequent users, you can use Ctrl+V to paste the string into the To field.

  6. Click OK.

  7. Repeat from Step 1 for each of the following users:

    • A Blue

    • A Red

    • A Yellow

  8. After configuring the home folders indicated, verify that the home folders have been created by accessing the Home_Folders folder in Windows Explorer.

  9. Continue with Setting Up the Other Hands-on Exercise Folders and Files.