Hello all,
I’m fairly new to the Server admin role and have been playing with GPO recently.
Our mapped drives were previously pushed out via a script, but I’ve been trying to move them over to the Mapped Drive GPO instead.
Some have been successful, for example, as part of the IT team, I have mapped some of our IT shares (4 in total) and these have all mapped.
I have also tried to map a folder from within a different share but it doesn’t appear on my mapped drives.
I have run gpresult /scope user /v and it says the GPO has been applied.
Where can I start to troubleshoot this?
In the GPO itself, it’s set to Update, Reconnect and use first available letter starting at A: - I have also checked I can browse to the network location I have entered (I’m a domain admin, so have access anyway)
Thanks in advance and let me know if you need any more info to diagnose.
1 Spice up
On the second tab of the group policy, have you ticked the box that says “Run this process in logged on users security context”? Without that ticked most things will not run.
HI there,
Thanks for the reply. I can confirm that the checkbox is checked. That’s also one of the things I checked.
Strange, as it’s showing as applied in goth gpresult and in Event Viewer but the mapping has still not appeared.
run gpresult to a html file and check that the policy is not being overwritten/empty - you have added the correct users to the apply to box (I try to start with the basic stuff, not trying to insult you!)?
Hmm, have got it to work now, have created the subfolder it’s own share on the file server and it seems to work
Thought Event viewer would have flagged it if it couldn’t create due to the path
Hello,
Looks like you have figured this one out, but thought I would share anyway. I usually use RSOP.msc when troubleshooting group policy. This allows you to see exactly what applied and from which GPO. What Is Resultant Set of Policy?: Group Policy | Microsoft Learn
