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I am trying to setup a group policy for a mapped drive. I created the policy in server 2012 r2 and am trying to test it on a windows 7 machine. I tried gpudate /force and gpresult but I do not see the policy being applied. I checked the both event viewers for errors but couldnt find anything. I set the policy to apply to an OU and the user account is in that OU.

where else can i go to check why the policy isnt being applied?

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Is just your group policy for the mapped drive not being applied, or are all of your group policies not being applied?

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just the mapped drive

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Is it a legitimate UNC path that the user account can access? Could very well be a security issue.

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yes the user can browse to the path and has access

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Did you try logging off? I’ve seen it only create mapped drives at logon, on those occasions you can GPUpdate until you’re blue in the face and it still wont appear.

Failing that, path / security issue as the others have suggested.

Oh and, there wouldn’t be a local device trying to take the drive letter you’ve assigned by any chance?

Check for hidden drives in My Computer (Hide empty drives setting in Folder Options), and DiskMgmt.msc.

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i rebooted twice. I’ll check for hidden drives

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Are you setting this via GP preferences…the preferred method?

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It’s not showing up at all when you run this on the PC?
Are you sure you applied it to the correct OU?

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Does the machine have a multi-card reader or any other drives installed? I’ve seen issues before where someone will connect a reader and it will grab the drive letter which is supposed to be assigned to the drive mapping.

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ahh it was a hidden drive. changed the drive letter for the policy and it worked.