5. Tap or click Add to open the Specify Group And Location dialog box. Or select a group entry, and then tap or click Edit to modify its settings.
6. In the Security Group Membership text box, enter the name of the security group for which you want to configure redirection, or tap or click Browse to find a security group to add.
FIGURE 6–2 Configure advanced redirection by using the Security Group Membership panel.
7. As with basic redirection, the options available depend on the folder with which you’re working and include the following:
■ Redirect To The User’s Home Directory If you select this option, the folder is redirected to a subdirectory within the user’s home directory. You set the location of the user’s home directory with the %HomeDrive% and %HomePath% environment variables.
■ Create A Folder For Each User Under The Root Path If you select this option, a folder is created for each user at the location you enter in the Root Path text box. The folder name is the user account name as specified by %UserName%. Thus, if you enter the root path value \\Zeta\UserDocuments, the folder for Williams will be located at \\Zeta\UserDocuments\Williams.
■ Redirect To The Following Location If you select this option, the folder is redirected to the location you enter in the Root Path text box. Here, you typically want to use an environment variable to customize the folder location for each user. For example, you could use the root path value \\Zeta\UserData\%UserName%\docs.
■ Redirect To The Local Userprofile Location If you select this option, the folder is redirected to a subdirectory within the user profile directory. You set the location of the user profile with the %UserProfile% variable.
8. Tap or click OK. Repeat steps 5–7 for other groups you want to configure.
9. When you’re done creating group entries, tap or click the Settings tab, configure the following additional options, and then tap or click OK to complete the process:
■ Grant The User Exclusive Rights To Gives users full rights to access their data in the special folder.
■ Move The Contents Of FolderName To The New Location Moves the data in the special folders from the individual systems on the network to the central folder or folders.
■ Also Apply Redirection Policy To Applies the redirection policy to early releases of Windows as well.
Removing redirection
Sometimes you might want to remove redirection from a particular special folder. You remove redirection by following these steps:
1. In the GPMC, press and hold or right-click the GPO for the site, domain, or organizational unit with which you want to work, and then tap or click Edit to open the policy editor for the GPO.
2. In the policy editor, expand the following nodes: User Configuration, Policies, Windows Settings, and Folder Redirection.
3. Under Folder Redirection, press and hold or right-click the special folder with which you want to work, and then tap or click Properties.
4. Tap or click the Settings tab, and then make sure that an appropriate Policy Removal option is selected. The following two options are available:
■ Leave The Folder In The New Location When Policy Is Removed When you select this option, the folder and its contents remain at the redirected location and current users are still permitted to access the folder and its contents at this location.
■ Redirect The Folder Back To The Local Userprofile Location When Policy Is Removed When you select this option, the folder and its contents are copied back to the original location; however, the contents aren’t deleted from the previous location.
5. If you changed the Policy Removal option, tap or click Apply, and then tap or click the Target tab. Otherwise, just tap or click the Target tab.
6. To remove all redirection definitions for the special folder, choose Not Configured in the Setting list.
7. To remove redirection for a particular security group, select the security group in the Security Group Membership panel, and then tap or click Remove. Tap or click OK.
User and computer script management
You can configure four types of scripts with Windows Server:
■ Computer Startup Executed during startup
■ Computer Shutdown Executed prior to shutdown
■ User Logon Executed when a user logs on
■ User Logoff Executed when a user logs off
Windows supports scripts written as command-shell batch scripts ending with the.bat or.cmd extension or scripts that use the Windows Script Host (WSH). WSH is a feature of Windows Server that enables you to use scripts written in a scripting language, such as VBScript, without needing to insert the script into a webpage. To provide a multipurpose scripting environment, WSH relies on scripting engines. A scripting engine is the component that defines the core syntax and structure of a particular scripting language. Windows Server ships with scripting engines for VBScript and JScript. Other scripting engines are also available.
Beginning with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, current Windows operating systems also support Windows PowerShell scripts. When Windows PowerShell is installed on computers that process a particular GPO, you can use Windows PowerShell scripts in much the same way as you use other scripts. You have the option of running Windows PowerShell scripts before or after other types of scripts.
Assigning computer startup and shutdown scripts
Computer startup and shutdown scripts are assigned as part of a GPO; as a result, all computers that are members of the site, domain, or organizational unit-or all three-execute scripts automatically when they’re started or shut down.
To assign a computer startup or shutdown script, follow these steps:
1. In File Explorer, open the folder containing the script or scripts you want to use.
2. In the GPMC, press and hold or right-click the GPO for the site, domain, or organizational unit with which you want to work, and then tap or click Edit to open the policy editor for the GPO.
3. In the Computer Configuration\Policies node, double-tap or double-click the Windows Settings folder, and then tap or click Scripts.
4. To work with startup scripts, press and hold or right-click Startup, and then tap or click Properties. To work with shutdown scripts, press and hold or right-click Shutdown and select Properties to open a dialog box similar to the one shown in Figure 6–3.
FIGURE 6–3 Add, edit, and remove computer startup scripts by using the Startup Properties dialog box.
5. On the Scripts tab, you can manage command-shell batch scripts ending with the.bat or.cmd extension and scripts that use the Windows Script Host. On the PowerShell Scripts tab, you can manage Windows PowerShell scripts. When working with either tab, tap or click Show Files.