Okay here’s my situation; I need to batch load home directories for about 3500 Win2k accounts. Easy enough, except, I need administrators to be able to access these home directories. Now, if I manually set the “Home Folder” attribute in an AD account it will create the home directory according to the convention \\servername\sharename\%username% and add the administrators of the server that hosts the directories into the ACLs along with the user (which is exactly what I need). Unfortunately this would require going into each account and setting the Home Folder attribute manually. I wish to automate the creation process for these home directories since not only do I need to create a sizeable amount of accounts, 3500, but I will be creating/deleting these accounts on a regular basis (educational environment, students come and go). I have tried employing the addusers.exe utility, which scripts in the accounts along with the appropriate home folder and profiles attributes but the homedirectory is not created when it scripts it in (for some reason AD doesn?t parse the user attributes of scripted accounts like it does when you create them through AD Users and Computers, all properties are assumed to already exist). Folder redirection appears to be out of the question because its only permission options are “Grant exclusive rights to the user”=TRUE/FALSE and I cannot have everyone able to get in to each others home directories and likewise I need admins to have access to the folders. So to sum up, I need a way of automating the creation of home directories with the appropriate NTFS permissions, namely Useraccount=Fullcontroll and Administrators=Fullcontrol (a vbscript would be ideal). Hopefully this makes sense. If not please let me know and I?ll clarify what I’m looking for. Thank you all for your help.
