
Microsoft says it's the user's alias thats added. The user’s alias is appended to the end of the path specified during user sign on. Do not use environment variables or ellipses. If you would like more information on the different options and what they mean you can click here. Click Only the files and programs that users specify will be available offline.
#Change default location domain user home folders Offline#
To configure the home folder location for all users of a computer running Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 R2, or Windows Server 2012 in a virtual desktop environment, enable the Set user home folder policy setting, and then specify the file share and drive letter to map (or specify a local folder). Click Offline Settings on Windows 2000 or Caching on Windows Server 2003 or later, which is located on the Sharing tab. If no path was given, the path is set to the users home directory. You can configure an alternative local or network location on a per-user basis by using the Home folder section of the user account properties in AD DS. The smb.conf file is a configuration file for the Samba suite. Can't seem to find it.Ī user's home folder, if configured, is the default folder used by some programs such as Windows PowerShell. Since this policy is in a domain in a subforest, so I think that's why the domain name is added to the folder, but I'd like an official statement from Microsoft confirming this.

\fileserver\root\Home\johndoe.domainname\Īnd I wonder why the '.domainname' is added to the folder. In the Active Directory Users and Computers tree, find and select your domain name. This works as expected, but the home folder that created is like this Select Start > Administrative Tools > Active Directory Users and Computers. I set a GPO to 'Set user home folder', use H: and as path '\fileserver\root\Home'.
