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I’m trying to hide a mapped network drive using the drive mapping policy and selecting the hide drive option but for whatever reason it does not work and have tried everything I can think of to make it work.

Anyone got any suggestions? Would be greatly appreciated!

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We mapped drives configured using GPP and one of those drives is set as hidden (which is working, as it is hidden to the users). The settings I have configured are as follows:

General Tab

Action: Replace

Location: \server\share$

Reconnect: Ticked

Label as: sharename

Drive letter use: Letter

Hide/Show this drive: Hide this drive

Hide/Show all drives: No change

Common tab

Remove this item when it is no longer applied: Ticked

Item-level targeting: Ticked (Targeting set to a user security group)

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Hmm just checked and all my settings are the same as yours but the drive is still visible to the user. I’ve also checked other gpo’s and no other policy is mapping drives so cant be overwriting it. Could there be another non drive mapping policy somewhere which could be overwriting the drive mapping gpo?

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run gpresults.exe /h to save the group policy results to a file. Check out the file and see if there are any errors. Also see if the policy is being read and applied correctly.

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Try removing the currently mapped drive and then logging the user off. When the user logs back in it should remap the drive but as hidden.

Is it possible this user is a local administrator and GPO is not applying to them?

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And you might try using “Update” instead of “Replace”

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gpresults.exe doesn’t exist according to windows but I’ve used rsop.msc (I guess thats the same) and couldn’t find anything relating to drive mapping on an admin account even though drives are being mapped. Cant run any of those programs with the user accounts in question as they are blocked.

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Also tried both your suggestions with no joy and no the user is not a local admin.

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It was a typo. Sorry. “gpresult.exe /h ” will export the results to a file. it should run as the logged in user without issue.