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Answered Managing Drive Mappings (display) - User -> Preferences -> Windows Settings -> Drive Maps

  • Friday, March 15, 2013 4:13 PM
     
     
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    I am considering moving to GP managed drive mappings, but some odd behavior concerning how they are displayed has presented itself during my test.

    I want to display, in this order, letter - name - UNC, however the UNC is not showing up on 3 out of 4 of the drive maps. I have already implemented the ShowDriveLetterFirst reg hack, but is there a hack for showing UNC?

    Thank you,

    tjcooper

     

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  • Friday, March 15, 2013 10:38 PM
     
     
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    TJ -

    Did you apply labels to the mappings that aren't working correctly? If so, try removing them; it should then display the sharename followed by the UNC.

    Carl

     
  • Monday, March 18, 2013 7:05 PM
     
     
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    Yes, I applied labels. I will remove them and see what happens. I think I have already done that, but I will verify.
     
  • Wednesday, March 20, 2013 5:43 AM
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    Hi,

    Any update about the issue.

    Please follow the below article to create another test GPO linked to your users:

    Using Group Policy Preferences to Map Drives Based on Group Membership

    http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2009/01/07/using-group-policy-preferences-to-map-drives-based-on-group-membership.aspx

    Regards,

    Yan Li

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  • Wednesday, March 20, 2013 2:33 PM
     
     
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    Thank you for the link, but I am not having problem mapping drives or dont understand how it works. My issue is with how mapped drives are displayed.  Some show up with a UNC, some do not. If I remove the label, they still dont show up as a UNC. That is probably due to a registry entry being unchanged by the GPO mapped drive label/no label process.

    I think it would be usefull if Win 7 would let you control how mapped drives are displayed (beyond the ordering of the information, drive letters first reg entry).

     
  • Thursday, March 21, 2013 2:50 AM
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    Hi,

    As far as I know, when we use GPP to map drives, the drive letter is followed by the UNC path. And logon script or other methods may hide the UNC path, but not Group policy.

    Please refer below threads for more details:

    http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/map-a-drive-letter-to-a-folder-the-easy-way-in-windows/

    http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/map-drive-without-unc/

    According to your description, what I would think out is we should compare those computers configuration to narrow down the issue.

    Or maybe we could test the GPO again on a new installed client.

    Regards,

    Yan Li

    Cataleya Li
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  • Friday, March 29, 2013 2:36 PM
     
     
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    Im using GPP and there is no UNC. I will wait until we upgrade our AD before using it again.

    • Edited by tj cooper Friday, March 29, 2013 2:37 PM
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