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With the current state of closure and quarantines I am cleaning up my environment’s GPOs because I’m seeing several separate policies that map different drives.

I have one particular policy that is the master drive mapping policy that I am trying to migrate mappings from other policies to as well as add a couple that we’ve still been manually mapping since so few users get them. It is one of these that I am having trouble with.

In my master policy I made a new Create policy, it has a unique letter, path is correct, reconnect enabled no change for the hide/show settings, and it is targeted to a Security Group. The drive letter is not appearing for the users in the security group. The GPO changes were made last week so has propagated, and since the security group is also used for share access the UNC path to the share is accessible, and gpresult reporting is showing the user group membership.

From what I can tell I’ve replicated everything from other existing drive mappings aside from them being a Replace and this one being a Create, and I have logged out/rebooted with my test account a number of times. All of the other drives mapped by this GPO are working, what am I missing to get this new drive to map?

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Hmmm let’s see ! Is the path accessible by the specific user through windows explorer ? E.g. F:\resources instead of \fileserver\resources

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Thats exactly what I’m saying the problem is. The user can access the drive by \server\share but the GPO that is supposed to create X:\share is not creating the mapped drive but does create and manage others, which I’m replicating how those are working but can’t figure out why this drive is not.

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No worries, is the old GPO still linked ? What is the letter you selected for your drive.
Can you share a screenshot of this GPO’s settings ?

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make sure its set to Create and not Update, create will remove and re-add the network drive each time they login.