Enable and Administer Home Folders for Your AppStream 2.0 Users
AppStream 2.0 supports the following persistent storage options for users in your organization:
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Home folders
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Google Drive for Google Workspace
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OneDrive for Business
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Custom shared folders (Server Message Block (SMB) network drives)
You can enable one or more options for your organization. When you enable home folders for an AppStream 2.0 stack, users of the stack can access a persistent storage folder during their application streaming sessions. No further configuration is required for your users to access their home folder. Data stored by users in their home folder is automatically backed up to an Amazon Simple Storage Service bucket in your Amazon Web Services account and is made available to those users in subsequent sessions.
Files and folders are encrypted in transit using Amazon S3's SSL endpoints. Files and folders are encrypted at rest using Amazon S3-managed encryption keys.
Home folders are stored on fleet instances in the following default locations:
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For single-session, non-domain-joined Windows instances: C:\Users\PhotonUser\My Files\Home Folder
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For multi-session, non-domain-joined Windows instances: C:\Users\as2-xxxxxxxx\My Files\Home Folder , where as2-xxxxxxxxx is a random user name assigned to each user session. You can determine your local user name through env variable $USERNAME.
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Domain-joined Windows instances: C:\Users\%username%\My Files\Home Folder
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Linux instances: ~/MyFiles/HomeFolder
As an administrator, use the applicable path if you configure your applications to save to the home folder. In some cases, your users may not be able to find their home folder because some applications do not recognize the redirect that displays the home folder as a top-level folder in File Explorer. If this is the case, your users can access their home folder by browsing to the same directory in File Explorer.
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