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One of our customers with Server 2012 has problems where the Windows 7 computers will intermittently lose one or more (sometimes all) of the network drives that are mapped using group policy.<br />
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What can be done so that these network drives will remain mapped and will stop disappearing from the Windows 7 computers?
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One of our customers with Server 2012 has problems where the Windows 7 computers will intermittently lose one or more (sometimes all) of the network drives that are mapped using group policy.

What can be done so that these network drives will remain mapped and will stop disappearing from the Windows 7 computers?

Network drives mapped through Server 2012 group policy disappear from Win 7 computers

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