move my documents automatically

[Guest]

You can change My Documents by clicking its property and changing the Target
location. But how can I make this automatically done so that every new user
will have his/her documents on a certain drive/partition without requiring
they do it manually (and the system will apply the appropriate security
settings)? I recall I did this by creating folders with each user's name and
then applying security settings manually, something I'd not want to do again.

The layout will look like this:
C:->windows, progfiles, docs&settings
D:->OS1data->user1, user2, etc.

 

[Jérôme GUERS]

I think it is NOT possible to move only the document folder of the user. You
need to move the whole profile (user folder from D&S).
Have a look to http://support.microsoft.com/?id=236621 to learn how to do
this.

Jérôme

linklunk wrote in
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[Richard Urban]

"I think it is NOT possible to move only the document folder of the user."

Incorrect answer as I have done just this on every single computer I setup
for my clients!

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Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Richard Urban]

You have to move the "My Documents" folder for each account while logged on
in their account. I know of no other way!

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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Jérôme GUERS]

OK, I don't explain myself carefully !
It is not possible to do this automatically. You have to be log in before.

If you move the entire profile, this become possible...
Jérôme

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[Guest]

I was hoping if there was some tweak available or a script that would do such
thing. The script perhaps can be put in Default User that's automatically
run whenever new user is created or a script that an administrator can run,
after new user is created, that basically do the same thing as moving the My
Docs target as if s/he were the user (by changing registry perhaps? it
shouldn't be so complicated, should it? I mean if you're the user you just
click on Move to the new Target Location). The script also sets the proper
security settings for the new Docs folder (Is it just System and the User
with Full Control settings?)