Mapped Drive - adaley0518/Tech_Journal GitHub Wiki

Steps to creating a Group Policy to a Mapped Drive for all users of a certain group:

  1. On the ad01 go to the 'server manager'
  2. With the Active Directory role installed --> open 'Group Policy Management' under the tools tab
  3. Open 'forest' --> 'Domains' --> till your domain 'amber.local'
  4. right-click and open 'create a GPO in this domain etc'
  5. Give it a name 'Sales Mapped Drive'
  6. Right-click on the GPO just created
  7. click 'Edit'
  8. Go through 'User Configuration' --> 'Preferences' --> 'Windows Settings' --> 'Drive Maps'
  9. right-click on 'Drive Maps' --> 'new' --> 'Mapped Drive'
  10. In the general properties
  • location: input the path of the folder you want to put in the drive
  • Select the Drive letter
  • check off reconnect
  • leave everything else the same
  1. in the Common tab properties
  • check off 'run in logged-on user's security context'
  • click apply then okay
  1. Either reboot PC or run gpupdate /force in cmd or both