Create a Roaming Profile & Home Drive
Create a Roaming Directory
- Open the Network Drives partition and create a new folder called Roaming
- Right-click the new folder and select Share with -> Specific people...
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Type in the Group or User you would like to grant access to this folder and click Add
Set their Permission Level to Read/Write
- Repeat as necessary and click Share
- Note that the correct folder was shared and click Done
- Navigate to the folder and right-click it and choose Properties from the context menu
Grant Access to Directory
- Navigate to the Sharing tab and select and copy the Network Path of the folder
- Click Cancel to exit the Properties window
- Open the app Acitve Directory User and ...
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Navigate to the user or group that you would like to give access to, right-click them, and choose
Properties from the context menu
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Navigate to the Profile tab and copy the Network Path into the Profile path
textbox and append it with
\%username%
ie. \James_Win10\Roaming\%username%
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Choose Connect for the Home Folder, select a drive letter to represent the home drive,
and copy the Profile Path into the To textbox
- Click Apply - the
%username% placeholder should resolve to the current user/group name
- Click OK to close the wizard