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AD Users | Set User Home Folder by OU rule

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Tatiana Golubovich
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Rule description

The rule queries the specified Active Directory user scope and assigns them user home folders based on the Organizational Unit (OU) in which the user account is located. 

 

When to use this rule

Use this rule when you need to set user home folders based on the Organizational Unit (OU) in which the user account is located. 

The Action Section of the rule, using a CSV text file, will construct the path where the user’s home folder is to be located.

Note 1: The column order of the CSV file is critical, but the names of the columns are not important. You should separate each value in the file with a semi-colon instead of a comma because some key attributes will contain strings with commas.

Column content should be as follows: 

  1. Column 1 must contain the OU DistinguishedName in which the user(s) to be given a home folder are located. The DistinguishedName should be in the form OU=Name,DC=Domain,DC=com and can easily be copied from Microsoft’s Active Directory Users and Computers console.
  2. Column 2 must contain the server share path in the form \\Server\Share\%USERNAME%
  3. Column 3 must contain the drive letter to which the share would be connected in the form Z:
  4. Column 4 should be left empty if the OU DistinguishedName from Сolumn 1 must exactly matches the user for which the home folder should be created. If the word Subtree is entered into the fourth column, the user may be in the OU listed in Сolumn 1 or in any sub-OUs of that OU. 
Note 2: Users defined in the scope that do not belong to any of the OUs specified in the CSV file will have the settings from the Action section applied. If the Action section settings are empty, the existing values will not be changed 

 

Rule Settings

Query Section

Setting name Description
Note: Usually this rule is used as a post-rule for New User Web Action. So by default Use Web Query Scope and ObjectGUID of User Created in Web UI values are used in the Limit scope and Account status settings.

Limit scope to this domain or OU

This setting defines the search query scope.

To improve query performance, limit the scope to specific OU.

Account status

Specify user account status.

Select data source

Specifies the text file to be imported.

The […] button allows the user to browse for the file and the Create/Edit button allows the creation or editing of the existing file in the built-in Data Source editor.

Separator used in file 

Specify separator used in the file: comma or semi-colon.

More Options 

  

Filter

 

Properties to display

To display additional properties for each object found by the query, add those properties to the list.

Sort by

To hide unwanted data returned by the query, select the filtering conditions.

 

Action Section

Setting name Description

User Profile

  

Profile path

Specify a path to the user's profile. 

 
Logon script Specify a path to the user's logon script.

Home Folder

  

Local path

 Specify this setting if you use a local folder for user home folders.

Connect

Specify a drive that is associated with the path defined in To setting.

To

Specify a shared folder for the user's home directory.

More Options

  

Max disconnected RDS session active time (minutes)

Specify integer value.

Max RDS session idle time (minutes)

 

Output Section

This section defines the output format of this rule.

To get more information about this section, please see the Output section article.

 

Enforce/Schedule section

This section defines the schedule for how often to run the rule.

To get more information about this section, please see the Enforce/Schedule section article. 

 

 

Change History

Version Notes
9.1.0

Domain Controller and Credentials settings have been removed. 

 

 

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