How to Import an AD User's Home Folder into Triofox

Windows Active Directory (AD) allows you to assign a "Home Folder" to a domain user to help administrators back up and manage user files from a central location. This Home Folder is specified under the AD user's Properties->Profile->Home folder.

For this example, I set up a test folder called Home with a test file In the documents folder of the User.

In Triofox, when importing the AD user, can import the AD user's home folder. The home folder is imported as a folder under the user account.

To allow the home folder work, Triofox server needs to have direct access to the defined home folder directly.

To begin, go to Triofox. Login as admin.

1. Go to Settings, Active Directory. Click Settings.
   In the Active Directory setting, make sure 'Publish user's home drive as root folder with name' is checked. Define the folder name you want to use. By default, it is 'Home folder'.
   
2. From the left side menu, click on Users.  Then, Click Create or Migrate User.
   
3. Click on the domain option
   
4. Click Browse on the Users Container
   
5. Click the checkbox for the user and then click Continue
   

6. Check Continue to finish user importing.
   

   After you finish importing the user, the user will be able to log in to the web portal or Desktop Client and see the Home folder attached to the cloud now.

   

   Any files that the user saves directly on the original location will be synced up to the cloud. In addition, any files saved to the cloud (either on the File Browser or a Desktop Client), will be synced back to the original network location as well.