Comments on: Using Group Policy to hide and map specified drives

By: Seb

Seb — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:49:22 +0000

Solved! The Windows 2003 Server was missing Client Side Extensions for Windows Server 2003 (KB943729).

Thank you for your time Eirik.

Sebastiano

By: Trond Eirik Haavarstein

Trond Eirik Haavarstein — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:31:20 +0000

Strange, please check the event log on the Terminal Servers in question. You could also try the same policy on a Windows 7 machine just to make sure. The User Security Context is required.

By: Seb

Seb — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:01:03 +0000

Hi Eirik, the GPO is linked to the OU and GP loopback is enabled. actually from GPRESULT I see the policy applied, but no drives mapped. The GPO config is the same as your post, I also tried to put Create instead of Replace… but same result.

By: Trond Eirik Haavarstein

Trond Eirik Haavarstein — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:53:30 +0000

Hi Seb, try linking the GPO to the Terminal Server OU and make sure you’re using Group Policy Loopback Processing Mode – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/231287

By: Seb

Seb — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:40:47 +0000

Hi Eirik,

thank you for your post.

I created the GPO to map a drive from a Win 2008 TS and for a Win 2003 TS.

The policy is applied to the Win 2003 server but the drive never appears on user sessions.

I looked at the event viewer but found nothing.

Have you have had such issue?

Thanks

By: Trond Eirik Haavarstein

Trond Eirik Haavarstein — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:16:40 +0000

Thanks for your comment Erik, I haven’t read this before but it seems like this is fixed with W2K8 Service Pack 1. In terms of performance we always see faster login with GPP instead of loginscripts. The script you’re using is one way to fix this, but I personally mean that everybody with more than 4 servers should run Citrix Provisioning Services. So in a PVS environment this won’t happen since the disk is write protected.

By: Erik Lundgren

Erik Lundgren — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:48:46 +0000

I have seen that you in several articles praise the Group Policy Preferences (GPP).
I agree from an administrators point of view. It’s very easy to administrate.
But what about performance in a terminal server environment? Have you read this articel?
http://bit.ly/adfVii

We have made a script that cleans “c:\programdata\microsoft\group policy\history\” on reboot, but it feels like GPP is not realy intended to be used in terminal server environments.

By: Group Policy Management – Import registry files

Group Policy Management – Import registry files — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:24:12 +0000

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By: Cristiano Santos

Cristiano Santos — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:57:46 +0000

Thnaks for the nice post Trond!

By: Trond Eirik Haavarstein

Trond Eirik Haavarstein — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 22:28:00 +0000

Thanks Alexey, I do agree. Normally the home drive is common and the rest is based upon Item Target Leveling for the GPO Mapped Drives