A client today needed us to set a home drive mapping from several Windows 7 clients to a share on a Windows 2003 DC. I learned a few things to look out for next time.

Home Directories

If you didn't know this already, you need to set home directory shares so that they allow full offline access. Specifically, this allows the H: drive mapping to occur. This should be the end of the discussion for pre-Win7 clients. User logs in, drive is mapped.

Windows 7 home directory mappings

Windows 7 does not appear to observe home directory mappings when joined to a Windows 2003 AD domain. You can set the home directory mapping in the user account, but the drive will not appear. Some others suggested disabling UAC, but I found this to be true even with UAC disabled.

If you need to map a home directory in this scenario, just do it in a login script.