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Mapping Drives through Group Policy

Hi,

The business i work in is using netlogon vbs scripts for each user to map drives upon login. An opportunity has presented itself where this can now be changed to group policy. I was wondering if there are best practices for deploying mapped drives through group policy? In the logon scripts i have seen that there is no consistency for drive letters for each mapped share between users and the shares which are mapped are different for each user.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

David

Saad Mardini

Hello David ,

thank you for your question ,

I agree that drive Mapping with GPO allows you to automatically map Network Drives via Group Policy. This saves you a ton of work in the long run and is the Best Practice on how to Map Network Drives on a Windows Server nowadays.

There is a bit of confusion of what all the Actions you can set for a Drive Map are doing, so I want to shed a little bit of light on that.

please , see this :

https://www.ceos3c.com/sysadmin/drive-mapping-with-gpo/

David McMorris

ASKER

Thanks for your reply Saad.

My issue is that the mapped drives per user differs, how can i deploy a policy so that each user gets their set of mapped drives?

Will i have to create a GPO for each share and then add the user to the targeted security groups?

Thanks.

Saad Mardini

Ya David , you have to create a GPO for each share , and add a Security group in the gpo Filtering tab.
Then you can easily add the group of users (or the singel user ) to the corrospendent group for each share.

Saad Mardini

Hi David

Have you tried the solution above ?

David McMorris

ASKER

Hi Saad,

I did it a slightly different way and got it working.

I created one GPO and added all the mapped shares to it. I then created a security group for each share and used item level targeting on each mapped drive within the GPO.

Thanks for your help.

David.

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Saad Mardini

was my comment helpfull for you ?

David McMorris

ASKER

Yes thank you Saad.

Saad Mardini

You are welcome David :)