Comments on: All about Drive mapping in Group Policy Preferences

By: Gareth

Gareth — Sat, 05 May 2012 12:55:43 +0000

Update: Found that instead of Create, I specified Recreate under Preferences/Drive Maps and now all servers and workstations seem to map correctly. Verification will come on Monday with un-touched machines that need to update the GPO first time.

By: Gareth

Gareth — Sat, 05 May 2012 11:55:17 +0000

Nothing here worked for me.
Windows 2008

By: mourb

mourb — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:17:04 +0000

Hey guys,

@ChrisSPS
I found the solution! Open the Folder Options. Select the Launch folder windows in a separate process check box, and then click OK. All mapped drives appear now in every new explorer window after ‘gpupdate’. You dont need to logoff. If you want to use ‘gpupdate /force’, answer no.

I am not sure about the background policy refresh.

best regards from germany
mourb

By: All about Drive mapping in Group Policy Preferences

All about Drive mapping in Group Policy Preferences — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:26:44 +0000

[...] a background refresh by issuing the command “gpupdate /force” and it should work منبع : http://techibee.com/group-policies/a…references/202 پاسخ با نقل قول « موضوع قبلی | [...]

By: ChrisSPS

ChrisSPS — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:01:38 +0000

Has anyone come up with a solution regarding the need to restart explorer.exe on Windows 7 to make mapped drives appear in Explorer after gpupdate or background policy refresh is performed?

By: Jasen Webster

Jasen Webster — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:04:44 +0000

You can also place the NoBackgroundPolicy DWORD value under the [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Group Policy\{5794DAFD-BE60-433f-88A2-1A31939AC01F}] key and it works, overriding the other registry setting mentioned in this article.

This leaves me wondering why MS left this option out of the Drive Maps Policy Processing policy, since the other 3 options exist under this policy key as well.

By: Sitaram Pamarthi

Sitaram Pamarthi — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:54:26 +0000

Breeze, are you seeing the logon scripts in RSOP output when ran from any windows 2008 server?

By: Breeze

Breeze — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:32:20 +0000

Deploy registry settings through GPO/Preferences/Windows Settings/Registry , it works.

By: Breeze

Breeze — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:30:40 +0000

Dear Sitaram,
thanks for sharing knowledge, deployment through GPO/Preferences/Windows Settings/Registry works fine, its ok, i have tested & implemented it. Further only this registry change have also solved my 1st problem (re-connect network drive after log on/log off).

One more thing required your kind attention that on Server 2k3 my log-on scripts (in *.bat format) works fine, but when I put them in server 2k8-R2/User-Properties/Profile/Logon scripts they don’t run. These *.bat files are in \sysvol\domain-name\scripts folder and are also visible in \netlogon\ & are accessable on each client and even I can run them manually.

Thanks in advance & best regards.

By: Sitaram Pamarthi

Sitaram Pamarthi — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 08:47:46 +0000

Fred,

Yes, relogin will work. There are two more options available to make explorer recognize the drives without re-login.

1) Restart the explorer process — I know it is a bad option but works.
2) Implement the Explorer Refresh Script that JD mentioned in the comments section. — Looks like is has some compatibility issues with Windows 7 but can be figure out.

Hope this help..!!