Not sure about the Home icons, but this is how you convert: (OS X Yosemite: Create and configure mobile accounts)
A mobile account lets you access your server based network user account while remote from the network and creates a local copy of your network home folder. Whether or not you’re connected to the network, you use the same user network name and password when you log in, and the desktop and other items on your Mac look the same.
Before you start, ask your network account server administrator to set up a mobile user account for you.
- Log in to your Mac using your network user account.
- Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Users & Groups.
- Click the lock icon to unlock it, then enter an administrator name and password.
- Click the Create button next to “Mobile account,” then specify which folders to sync and when.To change settings for syncing folders, repeat the steps, then click the Settings button next to Mobile Account. If the Settings button isn’t available, the network account server doesn’t allow changes to the mobile account settings. Ask the network account server administrator for help.
Suspect you have a permissions issue between AD and the home directory. IT has been over a year since I last had this issue crop up, and do not remember my exact steps I took, but did you convert, then reboot and log in with he "mobile" account, so it could create the local folders for the suer?