Desktop and My Documents folder redirect to Local PC drive other than C: drive

Question

I want to redirect my Desktop and My documents folders to the Local PC D or E drive. as like, when a active directory user will login for the first time, instead of C-Drive his Desktop and My documents folders will be created in Local PC D or E drive. please help me to do this.

Answer 1

My requirement is, when Active directory user will login from the pc his Desktop & Mydocuments folder will be created in the specified folder or drive of the PC where he login from. please give me solution step by step to create a group policy object for this task.
in that case i am prefer to create my desktop & my documents folder in D: Drive

Answer 2

in this solution folder will be created on a centralized point or shared location, but my requirement was to create the Desktop folder in Local PC D: Drive during his first login, if the user login from different PC the Desktop folder also created in all the PC that he login from.

Requirement Summery

• Desktop Folder will be created in D: Drive during the first login
• Which option need to select in GPO Properties
• what will be setting to select from Drop Down
• Which option need to select "Target Folder Location" drop Down
• What will be the "Root Path" for Local PC D: Drive

Answer 3

Hello MajedulHoqueChowdhury

You can change the default Drive and folder location with these settings:

Click the [Windows] button > choose "File Explorer."
From the left side panel, right-click "Documents" > choose "Properties."
Under the "Location" tab > type "H:\Docs"
Click [Apply] > Click [No] when prompted to automatically move all files to the new location > Click [OK].
If you believe you have documents saved in C:\Docs, you can go to that location and manually copy the files to your H:\ drive.

For expanding through policies you can set up a registry policy for the user following the next official article:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/configuration-of-the-my-documents-folder-dfd9a90d-8f80-18d6-e7cc-f1566fc3b10b

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Answer 4

thanks for your solution, but my PC is under an AD so that i need to do this by Group Policy Object.