Configure Windows Server 2012 R2 - MCSA Windows Server 2012 R2: Installation and Configuration Study Guide - page 208

Making Active Directory Objects Available to Users

With Active Directory, a system administrator can control which objects users can see. The
act of making an Active Directory object available is known as publishing . The two main
publishable objects are Printer objects and Shared work folder objects. The reason I list
Shared work folders here is because personal folders for users are not normally published in
Active Directory. You publish an object in Active Directory because you want an easy way
for everyone to find resources. Ordinarily, you don't want everyone accessing someone's
home folder, and this is why you don't normally publish home folders.
The general process for creating server shares and shared printers has remained
unchanged from previous versions of Windows. You create the various objects (printers or
folders) and then enable them for sharing.
To make these resources available via Active Directory, however, there's an additional
step: You must publish the resources. Once an object has been published in Active
Directory, clients will be able to find it.
When you publish objects in Active Directory, you should know the server name and
share name of the resource. This information, however, doesn't matter to your users. A
system administrator can change the resource to which an object points without having
to reconfigure or even notify clients. For example, if you move a share from one server to
another, all you need to do is update the Shared Folder's object's properties to point to the
new location. Active Directory clients still refer to the resource with the same path and
name as they used before.
Exercise 4.1 will walk you through the steps for sharing and publishing a folder for use
on your network.

e xeRCiSe 4 .1

Creating and publishing a Shared Work folder
1.

Create a new folder in the root directory of your C: partition, and name it Test Share .

Right-click the Test Share folder, and choose Share With ➢ Specific People. 2.