The more things change, the more they stay the same. Despite all the changes in W2K, many things like implementing home folders and user profiles remain virtually unchanged from NT, but My Documents has a few surprises. The default location where Windows 2000-aware applications store users' work is in their My Documents folder. Unfortunately this solution can lead to delays when the user logs on or off the network since the entire contents of My Documents are copied between the file server to the user's machine together with the rest of the user's profile information. If many users log off or on and have megabytes of files they are working on, network performance can be degraded as well.
Home folders are directories owned by users and residing on a network file server.
Modify the NTFS permissions by removing Full Control for Everyone and adding Full Control for Users. This will create a home folder for the user and name it after the user's logon name. The second solution is to redirect users' My Documents folders to a share on a network file server. The advantage of redirecting My Documents to a file server is that the folder and its contents are no longer part of the user's roaming profile and therefore do not cause delays in logging on or off. Please email me and I'll include your comments at the end of this article.