Manage Home Directories using Active Directory Windows Server 2008 Step by Step Guide

In this tutorial i need to show you on how to assign home folder on your active directory user via ADUC, this method will automatically create directories as your AD SamAccountName and unvisible by other AD user

1. What is a home folder in Active Directory?
   1. Why Using a home folder in Active Directory?
   2. How Manage Home Directories using Active Directory Windows Server 2008 Step by Step Guide
   3. Recomendation

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1. What is a home folder in Active Directory?

   In this tutorial i need to show you on how to assign home folder on your active directory user via ADUC, this method will automatically create directories as your AD SamAccountName and unvisible by other AD user.
   Home Directories or Personal Folder let you store your data privately (unvisible to other user) and store it on centralized data management like file server running on operating server or storage system.

   1. Why Using a home folder in Active Directory?

      Now its time for invisible-era, cloud-era and virtualize-era. Using home folder let you centralized your user data, easy to manage and backup.
      This method will keep your company confidential data too, when your user device stolen, the data will not visible on that device without an authentication.

   2. How Manage Home Directories using Active Directory Windows Server 2008 Step by Step Guide

      Below step by step on how to manage your user active directory home folder/directories
      • Open your Active Directory User and Computer, right click on configured user and choose property
      • Choose Profile Tab, continue with enabling Connect on Home Folder
        
        
        
      
      
      • Fill on text bar "to" with your network storage by type this command"\\yournetworkstorage.domain.com\yourdirectories\%username%$"
        where :
        1. yournetworkstorage.domain.com : your network storage location
        2. yourdireectories : your directories on network storage location
        3. %username%$ : folder name where created  will same with your ussername on active directory and hidden by $ parameter

   3. Recomendation

      This method very recommended for you as system administrator that :
      1. Economic
      This Feature is Free since you configure active directory on your infrastructure
      2. Monitoring
      You can monitore how much your user data growth and how effective usage of storage on you user
      3. Availability
      Again, you make user data protect by backup system running on your server. Even their device broken or stolen
      4. User Experience
      I think your user will happy since their data save and anytime they can recover old datas
      5. Security
      This method very helpful for security reason right???

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** Note : Pay attention to every detail steps that informed, failure or damage to your system or data is not my responsibility "Do With Your Own Risk" or you can do research through the Lab to minimize your system failure

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