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Managing Local Mapped Drives through GPO

Hi Everyone,

I will try to layout the situation as best as possible.

We have a login script that maps all network drives to our machines. The problem comes in that we all have different local drive letters that map multiple devices such as 4 SD Card Slots. Is there a way to "block off" the network drive letters to be used for mapping local devices on the machine.

Example:

I have A: B: D: H: and L: being mapped locally.
We are mapping the following letters via network mappings: H:, L:, Q:. S: T:, and Z:

I know I can go to my machine and use "Computer Management -> Disk Management" to just re assign the LOCAL letters of H and L to other letters that don't cross the network mappings BUT that's not the point of this question.

I want way that I can pretty much "reserve" the network letters on the local machines so that network drives can be mapped throughout the office without individually going to each machine's disk management. Can this be accomplished through GPO? Is there a better solution? We do not want to assign different letters to the map drives.

Thanks!

ChiefIT

you are already doing this with a logon script to map network drives. You can create multiple logon scripts:
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Let's say the CEO wants to map to shares of auditing, safety and executive folders...

You can map to a specific drive for that using a CEO logon script.

Place that logon script in the netlogon folder and then go into active directory and have only the CO run that logon script.

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Then, the IT guy needs acces to files of Network shares, IT downloads, and IT audits shares:

You can create a special logon script for the IT guy.

Place that logon script in the netlogon folder and then go into active directory users and computers and have only the IT guy run that logon script.
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Then, you can create your Entire office logon script that maps to the typical shares.

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No reservation is needed since you are creating a logon script to a specific virtual drive.

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@ChiefIT: We already know that but that's not the issue. The issue is if the logon script contains a letter such as H:\ but the local machine maps a LOCAL DRIVE, such as an sd slot, as H:\. The local machine mapping overrides the network mapping and you can't remove the local mapping without using Computer Management -> Disk Management and assigning it a new letter. Is there a way to automatically map the local letter as something that is NOT any of the network letters I provided above?

@peter197911: Yea I'm starting to feel there is no way to do this without locally being on the machine and remapping the sd drive to another letter.

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