Some progress - I think

We got caught up today, but I'm really starting to see why many people complain about Windows.  Is there not some way that settings could be more consistent?  Why do some things work one day and not the next?  Are we being sabotaged (just kidding, sort of)?

I have worked a bit in the user profile settings on our school server, although it has been a couple of years.  I remember the %username% command and entering the pathway (although I usually just copied and pasted), but for some reason it took a long time to come back to me.  Maybe I'm suffering from configuration overload.

The steps to set up the Folder Redirect gpo are:

1. Go to Administrative Tools -> Group policies
2. Create a new GPO at the desired level
3. Give it a descriptive name
4. Right click -> edit
5. The settings are in User Configuration -> Policies -> Windows Settings -> Folder Redirection -> Documents
6. Right click on Documents
7. Select Properties
8. Under the Target tab – select ‘Basic (Redirect everyone’s folder to the same location)
9. Pathway – enter \\servername\sharefolder\%username%\
• We had issues with this – Lyle believes that it could be the space in our share folder name
10. Make sure to ENFORCE this policy!!
11. Under Options
• Disable everything except for (the first selection for Policy Removal Behavior needs to be selected)

We also activated a gpo to standardize Start menu -> All Program items.  

To customize the programs for the clients in the All Program under Start:

• Created a folder (named Start Menu) on the C drive and modified the Sharing and Security for it – make sure that ‘everyone’  has rights to the folder
• We then created short cuts for various programs and placed them in the folder
• Then we created a GPO which we called Desktop Startup gtrw [Rocky's words]
• It is a specific gpo that I could find if I had access to a server from my home, but I believe it is in the Windows settings.

Before setting up a printer, we needed to turn on the Print Server role.  We set up our printer on the server just the same as normal, except for the following (Rocky's words):

• Choose the ‘Local Printer Option’
• Select ‘Create a new port’
• Select ‘Standard TCP/IP’
• Select Next
• Enter the static IP for the printer – in this case 192.168.24.51

·  We then had to ‘push’ the printer out to the clients by doing the following:

• Administrative Tools
• Manage Policy
• Select our folder
• Provide a name for the new GPO – Printers gtrw
• We then ‘exited’ of the Policy role

·  Next, we accessed the Administrative Tools

• Here, we selected ‘Print Management’
• Toward the bottom – when we selected ‘Deploy Printers’, there was nothing in the dialogue box.
• The printer we wanted (Xerox) was in the next item ‘Print Server’
• We right clicked on the printer and selected “Deploy with Group Policy”
• At the next window ‘ Group Policy Object’, we selected ‘Browse’
• We then went into the container for Printer and double clicked on the “5769network”
• This brought up a listing from which we choose “Printers Gail Rocky”
• We then checked ‘Apply to: GPO”
• MAKE SURE TO CLICK ON “ADD” BUTTON!
• This cause the info from the Print Server to be move to the Deploy Printers section