My department is currently transitioning our servers to Server 2008R2 and we are looking into using Group Preferences to map network drives. Our users currently have a personal network drive and at least one group network drive for their department. Currently, we are using a kix script to map the drives. I have figured out how to map the group drive based on their security group, but I am having trouble figuring out how to automatically map the personal drive without having to set it up individually for each user. Currently, in the kix script, it maps the drive based on the user name (each personal drive is named the same as the user id). Basically, my question is, is there a way to have every user automatically map the drive that is named for them. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Drive Mapping Through Group Preferences
group-policymappeddrive
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Best Answer
You can specify the user's name as an environment variable in the destination path. See this Group Policy Team blog entry for specific details.