Micah AdamsonMicrosoft contingent staff
Setup
FSLogix is great from managing user profiles and settings when publishing a Citrix or Horizon virtual desktop. In the past I’ve setup vSANs with specific unc paths to call out and store personal disks.
Recently when working with a client they asked if the users home share could be used as the location to store these personal disks. They had multiple domains and somewhere around seven or eight different home share paths.
Home share variable doesn’t work
Now as the quote above suggest this can not be done. Yes, this person is right you cannot use the variable %homeshare% but you can use %username%. This will require you to know all possible root paths that home shares can be found in, which though an extra step does accomplish the desired goal.
FSLogix group policy
First thing to do is gather all possible home share locations:
\\domain1\pathA\%username%
\\domain1\pathB\%username%
\\domain2\pathA\%username%
\\domain2\pathB\%username%
\\domain2\pathC\%username%
\\domain3\pathA\%username%Let’s head to the FSLogix group policy settings and put these paths into use.
Location
Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > FSLogix > Profile Containers
Setting
VHD Location, enter the following
\\domain1\pathA\%username%;\\domain1\pathB\%username%;\\domain2\pathA\%username%;\\domain2\pathB\%username%;\\domain2\pathC\%username%;\\domain3\pathA\%username%Conclusion
You can have your cake and eat it to. No new storage solution or location be needed. Users will continue to store all of their personal information, now including their personal disk, in their home share.
This will simplify end user support and provide for a great virtual desktop experience with user settings following them and not missing a beat.
