Hello. I'm aware of the fact that when users' home directories are redirected to a network share, the folders are renamed to 'Documents' for when a client has logged on with a Windows 7 machine.
My question is, I now need to rename a user's folder, to reflect a change in their surname. I should add that their UPN name has already been updated within AD, and that the home drive maps without issue.The problem here involves folder redirection, particularly the 'Desktop' folder. Due to the group policy for redirection using the path value of\\Server\sharename\%username%\Desktop, the policy is attempting to create the 'Desktop' folder within \\Server\sharename\%username%(new surname).Of course, this will fail to happen, as a home folder doesn't exist for the user's new surname, but obviously does for her previous name (only the UPN was updated in AD, the path to her homedrive remains the same containing her previous surname).
I will be updating the homedrive path within her AD user account, but before doing this I need to rename her existing home folder. Is there a way to do this when the folder is named 'Documents' (due to the folder redirection issue indicated at the beginning of this post).
Can I simply rename 'Documents', or will this cause issues? Is it easier to set the new homedrive path within her AD user account, have the folder with her new name auto-create, and then move the existing documents over to the new folder?
Thanks.