How to Update the Home Directory in User Profile by PowerShell

Some users experienced issues with unmapped drives on their computers. Investigation revealed that the Home folder path was blank in user profiles.

The Solution

# Get all users in the OU
$allfacstaff = Get-ADUser -Filter * -SearchBase "OU=FacStaff,OU=Campus,DC=mike,DC=com"

# Create a new object
$facstaff = @()

foreach ($user in $allfacstaff) {
    $firstletter = $($user.surname).Substring(0, 1)
    $SSOID = $user.SamAccountName
    $path = "\\share\$firstletter\$SSOID"
    $homedriveLetter = "K:"
    $homeDirectory = Get-ADUser $SSOID -Properties * |
        Select-Object -ExpandProperty HomeDirectory

    # Add into object
    $prop = @{
        'SSOID' = $SSOID
        'HomeDirectory' = $homeDirectory
    }
    $obj = New-Object -TypeName PSObject -Property $prop
    $facstaff += $obj

    if ($homeDirectory -eq $null) {
        Set-ADUser -Identity $SSOID -HomeDirectory $path -HomeDrive $homedriveLetter
    }
}

# Export to CSV
$facstaff | Export-Csv -Path c:\temp\mapDrive.csv -NoTypeInformation

Key Details

• The script uses an if check to see if the home directory path is blank
• When blank, it assigns both a drive letter and path
• Remove the conditional to apply settings to all users
• Computers require a restart for the mapped drive to function properly