Create a new folder on a file share - feasible?

  • 23 January 2015
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A client has posed this question to us and I haven't been able to find much in the way of an answer anywhere yet.

Their request, as part of their New Employee Onboarding process is to automate the creation of the new users home directory on their file server. We've already taken full advantage of the Nintex Workflow Enterprise action set to help automate much of their new hire processes so ideally this would extend that process if possible.

Have any of you gotten this (or a similar) request before? If so, were you able to figure out a way to accomplish this via Nintex Workflow?

I'm very interested in your feedback!


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Hey Steve, I dare say this would be very much a task for either the commercial Powershell action from Re: PowerShell Script Custom Workflow Action‌ or the open source one PowerShell Action‌.. Then using this

New-SMBShare –Name “Shared” –Path “C:Shared”

–ContinuouslyAvailable

–FullAccess domainadmingroup

-ChangeAccess domaindeptusers

-ReadAccess “domainauthenticated users”

Ref: How To Create a Network Share With PowerShell | I Love Powershell

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Thanks a lot Dan - that sounds like a very solid approach!

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