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Mapping drives based on group membership in AD 2003

I am trying to map drives in AD for my users. My question is if my AD is set up like this:
Domainname OU
Employees OU
Department OU
And I want to map a certain drive letter to each department, so I put in the department OU the GPO that maps the drive –will AD run the loginscript at the DOMAINNAME OU afterwards? Do I need to “call that loginscript to run after the department login script?

Mike Kline

Do you have a login script at the domain level and a login script at the OU level? It will run both scripts in that case.

Thanks

Mike

Joseph Moody

Why not use Group Policy Preferences to map the drive and then use Item Level Targeting to scope the drive down to the OU that you desire?

http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2009/01/07/using-group-policy-preferences-to-map-drives-based-on-group-membership.aspx

The above is based on group membership but setting up for OU is just as easy. It will even run in a 2003 server environment and on XP desktops!

Cered

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mkline
yes i have login scripts at both domain and OU level - i just wanted to make sure that it will run the OU then the domain in that order

Jmoody
i was under the impression that GPP only worked on 2008. if that would work in a 2003 enviroment that woould be great.

Joseph Moody

It takes a few more steps to get it to work at first. Here are the directions:

http://techibee.com/windows-2008/implement-group-policy-preferences-in-windows-2003-environment/161

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