Giving Active Directory users a common-shared home folder

Question

I have an Active Directory running on windows server 2008 R2.

Everytime a user logs on a Windows Computer it creates a home directory (C:/Users/$username).

I want that all Active Directory users have the same home directory.

I.e: user1, user2, user3...usern use "C:/Users/user" folder as home directory.

Is that possible?

Thanks,

Answer 1

Since you are talking about the C:\users\%username% folder, you are talking about a users local profile directory. There are a few things you can do to here. A combination of the below things will give you something that is close to having a single local profile.

• Setup folder redirection to have documents, desktop, favorites etc directed to a single common folder on a server or elsewhere.
• Profile handling
  • Setup a mandatory profile, that applies to all users. A single profile is used by all users, but no modifications are permitted by users. All changes are lost at logout
  • Roaming profiles permit profiles per-user but they are copied to a file server of your choice and can be cleared off the local machines at logout.
  • Setup automatic deletion of roaming profiles.