By: fromhyderabad

fromhyderabad — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 06:09:42 +0000

our is a engg college, we are using windows 2003 enterprise edition server, we installed oracle 10 g server and in clients oracle 9i forms and reports(66 nos). we want to give 50 Mb space to each user and the programs need to be stored in server by user account and how to do it. its not compulsory that users has to sit at one place.so how to see users folders and programs in it .
any answer

By: dwiebesick

dwiebesick — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:25:15 +0000

Fist I would highly recommend reading Dan Holme’s Windows Administration Productivity Solutions for IT Professions. This is the best resource I have found for user data management.
Having said that, have you considered Group Policy to accomplish this? That would be Microsoft’s recommendation. With folder redirection, the OS sets up the folder permissions and you don’t have to. Folder redirection then ‘moves’ the My Documents to the users ‘space’ on the server.
You could use Home Folders in their (Active Directory Users and Computers) Profile, assigning drive letter Z. This method requires you to set up the folder permissions. Using home folders does not redirect their My Documents; it gives them a Drive Letter for the ‘server storage space’ to do as they please.
You can use folder redirection and home folders to accomplish data management. I have customers that will no do folder redirection; leaving My Documents (includes My Music, etc) on the local computer and use home folder to give the user ‘server storage space’. The users can then use My Documents for local, non-critical, non-backed up, storage, especially for My Music, My Pictures; the stuff that some people just have to have.
You could consider using the %username% variable which maps to each individuals name. I would use only logon scripts for special purposes. If you have 2003 R2, I also suggest you look at Access Based Enumeration (ABE).

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