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Group Policy - Map Network Drives

We run Windows Server 2003. In the past, network drives have been manually mapped... I now need to move some of the mapped drive locations to different servers due to lack of space, and don't want to have to go to each machine and remap. What will be the best way to do this? I'm thinking use a group policy to run a .bat file with the "net use" command to map the drives, but don't know if that is the best way. Can I apply this to only certain OUs???

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rhcellxion

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thanks for the great info guys... I assume the one with the /DELETE switch disconnects the old drives at logon? How can I make this work for my vpn users who travel??? They login with their AD credentials...

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Sinder255248

You might need to give them a batch file on desktop as it will probably fire up VPN once logged in so will not apply GPO or logon script.

tigermatt

For VPN users, they would need to perhaps be given a shortcut on a shared folder or other location which links to the Batch file. Unless there are several factors set when the VPN users log in, you won't be able to get the logon script to run automatically for remote users.

And yes, the /DELETE switch removes old drives to make space for the new mappings to be created.