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These examples show how to create a policy using Group Policy Preferences to map a drive based on group membership on the domain.: <a href="http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/17039-mapping-drives-with-group-policy-preferences-and-item-level-targeting" rel="ugc">http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/17039-mapping-drives-with-group-policy-preferences-and-item-level-targeting</a><br />
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<a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2009/01/07/using-group-policy-preferences-to-map-drives-based-on-group-membership.aspx" rel="ugc">http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2009/01/07/using-group-policy-preferences-to-map-drives-based-on-group-membership.aspx</a>
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These examples show how to create a policy using Group Policy Preferences to map a drive based on group membership on the domain.: http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/17039-mapping-drives-with-group-policy-preferences-and-item-level-targeting [http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/17039-mapping-drives-with-group-policy-preferences-and-item-level-targeting]

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

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Mapping the drives i'm good with. My question is mapping a search drive which is a concept carryover from Novell.
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Mapping the drives i'm good with. My question is mapping a search drive which is a concept carryover from Novell.

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Can you explain how it works?
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for the longest, Users have logged into a Novell client which has mapped a search drive usually as the letter Z. I had a database which uses an executable on said drive called appload.exe. I updated the database to Access 2013, but if the search drive is absent, the database does not work. Is there an equivelent of a search drive that can be implemented in Active directory which maps the dirves (other than the Novell drives) through Group Policy?
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for the longest, Users have logged into a Novell client which has mapped a search drive usually as the letter Z. I had a database which uses an executable on said drive called appload.exe. I updated the database to Access 2013, but if the search drive is absent, the database does not work. Is there an equivelent of a search drive that can be implemented in Active directory which maps the dirves (other than the Novell drives) through Group Policy?

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