Mapping My Documents to Users area

Question

I am looking to automate a process that we have to carry out, when building a PC for a user we have to map their my documents to their area on our server is there a way to automate this process? I have tried setting up a group policy in AD users>policies>windows settings>folder redirection and then to documents and setting up a basic policy and inputting the relevant path. I did also create a Vbscript to rewrite the documents.library-ms file on the computers both have failed, except the GP worked on windows 8 machines and not windows 7 Does anyone know how we could map my documents autonomously?

Answer 1

Group Policy is the way to go. Why it fails on your Windows 7 box I can't say, but you can use (run) rsop.msc to troubleshoot GP issues from the client.

Answer 2

I think Roaming User Profiles is what you are after.

• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj649079.aspx
• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc738596%28v=ws.10%29.aspx