The Task

Our users are logging into several Terminal Server Farms where they are running a TM1 application client which connects to the main TM1 Server. On opening the client it is meant to put 2 folders in their profile under the AppData folder. This is a folder called Applix which also contains another folder called TM1.

We have roaming profiles where we have a profile drive and a home drive and the AppData folder is redirected to the user’s Home Drive. It seems that this application does not cope well with creating the Applix folder on the redirected Home Folder location

However we have found it works fine when you have a straight roaming profile with no redirected folders!

So what do we need to happen?

1. A user logs on to a Terminal Server Farm
2. At logon a GPO containing a PowerShell script to do this task will run
3. The script will test that the folder path exists first \\ServerXYZ\Home\Username\AppData\Roaming and if it does, it will do nothing
4. If the path doesn’t exist, it will put a folder called Applix in the following path \\ServerXYZ\Home\Username\AppData\Roaming
5. Note, we put the Applix folder on the Terminal Servers as C:\Applix and the script picks this up for copying from this location

The PowerShell Script

if (!(Test-path “\\ServerXYZ\Home\$env:USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Applix”))
{
Copy-Item -path “C:\Applix” -Recurse -Destination “\\ServerXYZ\Home\$env:USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Applix” -Container
}