Emcopy exclude
Emcopy exclude windows 7#
There is another issue which will affect your ability to migrate users home dirs (possibly) and that is that Windows 7 et al, tend to display a users home directory as “ My Documents” occasionally. You may want to set up an adminstrative hidden share on the root of the filesystem though, so that you can get to ALL the home directories for the purpose of deleting old users, dealing with any support problems.
Note that since existing home directories are each individually shared in their own right, you may feel the desire to use sharedup to migrate the shares to the VNX – This is not required since each user maps the same share and the datamover paths them through to their own subfolder. You can view my previous post on using robocopy or emcopy to migrate data.
Emcopy exclude full#
The full official doc can be read here HomeDirectory , but that is the basic gist of it, and I found it worked first time, so it’s pretty straightforward to get installed and running and makes subsequent adminstration of home directories a cinch. This can be changed by setting domain admins full control on a top level folder for the domain, and making a registry change to the emc Home Directory settings in HKLM\Software\emc\homedirectory and setting 0 to 1 which turns on inheritance. The default security is that the users home directory is fully secured so that only they can get to it. This is what controls what folder they get dropped off at and/or the folder structure that needs to be created for them if there’s no pre-existing home directory for that user. Once this is created, all you need to do is create a rule for users * with a path to your filesystem\\ whereby is the domain name they’ve logged in on and is their username. It’ll warn that theres currently no database and that one should be created. Once the snap in is installed, you can enable Home Directory. You can always add the other features later by re-installing and HomeDirectory will not be affected.
Emcopy exclude install#
You start the homedirectory feature from the CelerraCIFSManagement snap in, but remember to do a custom install and untick UNIX Users and CAVA if you have no intention of using them, since Unix Users will attempt to change your AD schema (but will fail if you’re account is not a schema admins member). You don’t need to create a home share on the VNX upfront, and if you do, HomeDirectory won’t actually start. If a home directory folder doesn’t already exist, it can (and will by default) create one. It’s a nightmare to find unless you still have your CD’s that came with your Celerra/VNX but see my previous post on CAVA for a possible working link to it, assuming you already have a powerlink account with emc (free to set up).Įmc Home Directory is a very neat piece of functionality whereby you change the users home directory path in AD to read \\cifsserver\home and upon hitting the home share on cifsserver the user will be automatically dropped into the subfolder containing their home directory files. The emc CelerraCIFSManagement snap-in for Microsoft Management Console can be used to set up VNX Home Directory.