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Hey all,

We have one of our virtual machines that intermittently disconnects one of its network drives. It’s a local user account on the VM, and it remains powered on at all times, so there should be no reason the drive disconnects. When I run “net use” as the local user, the drive is listed but says “disconnected” and cannot open the folder. It’s the only VM that does this perpetually, even though all the VMs use the same image when built.

Additionally, we map the drives manually using a script and keep the connection persistent. Outside of Windows updates, I have not come across another VM that drops the mapped drive as frequently as this one does. Any ideas is appreciated!

PS: already checked the power settings, but again, they are the same on EVERY VM.

10 Spice ups
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Are you getting any specific error messages or anything like that as intermittent disconnection can be cause by a few things.

you might want to take a look at the Windows credential manager as there may be an issue with stored credentials. You may also want to make sure there is no GPO setting interfering with the manual configurations.

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The only error thrown is the generic one indicating the drive is disconnected (even though I can see it when I run “net use”). We don’t have a DC, so no GPO to interfere. If the issue is with the Windows credential manager, would clearing it resolve the issue?

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Anything in event logs?

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Negative, nothing reported to indicate a cause. I deleted the local profile and setup a new one. Will see if that fixes the issue.