GP Preferences Will Reduce Logon Scripts : Mapping Drives

re: GP Preferences Will Reduce Logon Scripts : Mapping Drives

Tony — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:44:25 GMT

Hi Lilia, loved your Tech.ed session on this stuff, I think it will work a treat for us.

Wanted to share something with you that made me laugh today, we had a support call in with MS for an e-mail issue and the recommendation from MS was to add some Kix script into our logon script to set a registry value when the user logs on...... I immediately thought of your Tech.ed session - perhaps some internal education may be worth while :-)

re: GP Preferences Will Reduce Logon Scripts : Mapping Drives

Anteaus — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:05:49 GMT

I fail to see any advantage over a logon script. It's replacing a single concise line of typing with numerous, labor-intensive GUI steps.

The settings are deeply-embedded in a complex subsystem, making it extremely hard to find or navigate-to.

With a script you can see at a glance what mappings will be created. In a large script you can use your texteditor's search function to find a particular driveletter or path.

Plus -and a VERY big plus- you can copy your script and make experimental changes. If it doesn't work-out you can put the original script back.

OTOH, make an ill-advised change here and you are basically up the creek, because you are dealing with an 'opaque' system which cannot be backed-up in any simple way.

-Explain to me, how is this better?

re: GP Preferences Will Reduce Logon Scripts : Mapping Drives

VDIAS — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:47:19 GMT

Possibel to do this on winserver2003?

re: GP Preferences Will Reduce Logon Scripts : Mapping Drives

Rod — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:41:37 GMT

Brock,

I'd follow the NTFS ACL listings for redirected folders, found at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc778661(WS.10).aspx

re: GP Preferences Will Reduce Logon Scripts : Mapping Drives

Brock — Sun, 24 May 2009 17:43:47 GMT

In the idea of setting up a GPO to map user network drives mapped as follows:

\\fileserver\share$\%LogonUser%

What Share and NTFS permissions are recommended for the \\fileserver\share$ folder to allow the folder to be automatically created upon logon if it does not exist?

Thanks,

-B

re: GP Preferences Will Reduce Logon Scripts : Mapping Drives

GPTeam — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:37:27 GMT

Here are the requirements for managing Preferences:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731892.aspx

Thanks!

re: GP Preferences Will Reduce Logon Scripts : Mapping Drives

Robert — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:36:14 GMT

Policy editing for W2K8 must be performed via Vista with RSAT(Remote Server Administration Tools) installed or another W2K8 for Group Policy Preferences to be editable.

Then of course for a WXP box to be able to understand those extended GPP options, you need Client Side Extensions and XML Lite installed on it.

re: GP Preferences Will Reduce Logon Scripts : Mapping Drives

Marc — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:39:50 GMT

Please include the system level information at the top of this doc. No where does it say this is for 2008 and Vista.

re: GP Preferences Will Reduce Logon Scripts : Mapping Drives

Robert — Fri, 08 May 2009 00:16:00 GMT

I had already pretty much exhausted myself with Google, MS white papers I could find and had just launched into usenet, when I found this closest-to-the-issue blog.

I'll pop over to your forums next.

Thank you for the pointer and... thank you for the pointer. 8)

re: GP Preferences Will Reduce Logon Scripts : Mapping Drives

Greg — Thu, 07 May 2009 17:20:30 GMT

Just curious which Resource Toolkit youve obtained your GPEDIT from. Im using the Windows 2003 Kit and I dont have the options youve listed here.