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cannot unmapped a network drive

Dear Experts,

I have a network drive mapped to end users ( windows 7) via GPO and no users are targeted with security groups. it is mapped to everyone.

trouble I have is that I have removed GPO  on OU in Grop policy management and end users are still have network drive mapped.

I have  run GPO result on few machines and I cannot see the GPO is applied to end user. But still mapped to end client??? I could not also see a netlogon or startup script for this drive.

Error message in eventviwer is

"
Group Policy Drive Maps was unable to apply one or more settings because the changes must be processed before system startup or user logon. Always wait for network at computer startup and logon" has been enabled but event warning still remains "

any ideas please?
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What has happened in the past is the net use x: \\xxxx\yyyy had the /persist so instead of being a transient net use it tatoo'd itself to get rid of this you need to use a net use \\sharename /delete
Make sure you use the same userid on the computer to in-map as you used to map.

From that userid, open Command and type NET USE X: /Delete where X is the drive mapped.
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thanks for the inputs Experts. I forgot to mention that this is affecting domain users over 1000. what is the easiest way to do this for all domain users?

thanks
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I mapped the drive from 2008 AD server using GPO in the past.
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any idea please?
Q. what is the easiest way to do this for all domain users?

A. Setup a login script which performs the Net Use X: /delete in it and that will globally wipe the mapped drive for all users.

If that doesn't sound like a working plan, setup a Group Policy Startup Script to do the same thing.

Alan
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Simply removing a GPO won't undo what was already done.  You either need to create a new GPO that specifically removes the share or the Net /Delete command as a login script though you may need to run it as a STARTUP script if it is in the HKLM registry keys.
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completed the job with no extra effort... thank you