Assign mapping drive through GPO

We have a simple domain with forest level is 2003 and domain function level is 2008, all domain controller is 2008 R2. workstations are windows7 professional. We are tring to assign mapping drives through
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Hi Tracy,
>>How ever, half of the users does not get the drives,is there any reason why this GPO does not work?
Please try to log on twice continuously to see if the drive can be mapped successfully. If not, please check event logs in Event Viewer to see if some related events were logged, and we can run cmd command
gpresult/h gpreport.html to collect group policy result report to troubleshoot the issue.
Best regards,
Frank Shen

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Mapping drive using GPO does not obey to Item-level targeting

Dear all,
We are mapping drive using Item-level targeting based on security group (User Configuration > Preferences > Windows Settings > Drive Maps) with the following settings:
Action: Replace
Run in logged-on user's security context: <Checked>
Item-level targeting: <Checked>
So if user is member of Group_X then he/she will have drive X mapped on his computer.
Problem now is that (even if reconnect is unchecked), drive will stay mapped when we remove a user from this group.
Is this the normal behavior ? did I missed something ?
or even worst, imho, should I add a new drive properties which would say to delete the drive if user does not belong to the relevant group ?
-> double targeting query for a single drive
-> what's the point of Replace / Reconnect then ?
Thanks in advance for your opinions!
/behd
[EDIT: Forgot to specify Win2008R2 AD, Win7 Pro clients but doubt that it'll be of any interest for this case]

Drive mapping should not remain after you remove the user from the group.
What I suspect is, that at first, the "reconnect" was checked then the user got the policy and tattooed the reconnect value. after that it doesn't matter that "reconnect" was removed.
Try the following:
Logon with test user, make sure no drive mapping exist (disconnect if necessary).
Create a new policy with drive map - make sure reconnect is not checked, and apply it for the test user.
Make sure no other drive mapping policy exist for that user.
Login with the test user, make sure drive was mapped.
Log off that user, remove it from the group, wait for AD replication and log on again (sometimes another log off \ log on required).
Please take a moment to Vote as Helpful and/or Mark as Answer where applicable. Thanks.

Mapped drives automatically disconnected

Hi,
Having a bit of an odd issue with a Windows 2012 R2 server mapping drives to a Windows 2008 R2 in a RDS environment.
I have setup the mapped drives in GPO with the replace option and reconnected ticked.
When I login with a user account, the drives all have the Red X, which causes us issues with applications trying to run from them, or utilize the drives, if you go and click on them in windows explorer they map fine.
If I manually map a drive, log off and back on same red X. Now if I do this as a domain admin, they drive seems to stay connected.
So I thought id add the users to local admin to test, no difference. I have tried to disable all my GPO so nothing is getting applied to this server and same issue.
have tried this command on the file server
net config server /autodisconnect:-1
Updated the registry with the as per:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297684#appliesto
have also tried the linkconnections regkey
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/937624/en-us?wa=wsignin1.0
now pretty much out of idea's may have to log it with MS, but thought id see if anyone has had a similar issue.
Thanks,

Hi,
Would you please tell us that does this issue also happen on other servers?
In addition, are there any related warning or error messages logged in the Event Logs?
Best Regards,
Amy
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Manage map drive GPO clearly

I would like to setup GPO to map drives instead of kixtart login script.
In login script, it had command to map many different drive mapping for all department.
e.g. Account, Shipping, Marketing, Engineering ...etc.
Each department will map several drive based on their requirements in ONE login script. It can be read easily in this file.
To achieve above task in GPO, can map drives based on Item-level targetting for differnet group memebership.
But how should manage GPO clearly. create GPO for each department? Then there will have many GPO_DeptName_MapDrive GPOs there, Right?
or I can create one GPO. And put all mapping drive needed there?
Many thanks.

Hi,
group the accounts in ad in an OU per department.
If you use one script (that possibly differentiates the mappings based on group membership), you can use one gpo.
If you use different scripts, or want to apply all settings through gpo, you will need to vcreate multiple gpo's and assign them to the appropirate OU's.
Another thing; I would recommend not to create a GPO per setting, rather a GPO per environment or per group of settings (Like UserConfigurationMarketing, instead of MarketingMapdrive, Marketingdesktopshortcut and MarketingSecurity). Avoid creating gpo's
that only contain few settings.
MCP/MCSA/MCTS/MCITP

DFS and Windows 7 x64 strange behavior when trying to access a DFS link through mapped drive

I've manually mapped a network drive (Q Drive) to a DFS location. Whenever I go into "My Computer" and open the Q Drive it shows the DFS links but when I double click one of the links it randomly takes me back to the "My Computer" starting point showing my standard drive letters. If I click through the Q drive and the DFS several time it all of the sudden works. Sometimes this circle of clicking can go on for 5-10 times before it works properly.
I'm running the x64 edition of Windows 7. Any suggestions on how to make this work properly? Its very annoying.

GPO mapped namespace where you can't connect through the mapped drive letter but can connect through the DFS UNC namespace? Do you use access based enumeration?
I personally think it has something to do with network bandwidth, the security token and offline files. =)
You can access the namespace itself but not any of the linked shares (try checking the ACL:s on the shares and you get permission denied, but you still see them, ie they are listed).
I found a post sometime ago about corrupted/trunkated security tokens. If the member was part of too many AD groups the token was trunkated and corrupted. That was going to be my next move. Sniff the traffic and see what actually happens when the issue occur
if theres something to be learnt there. Since it works correctly through the UNC adress but not through the drive letter you ough to be able to see what is different between the two requests.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2008/05/14/troubleshooting-kerberos-authentication-problems-name-resolution-issues.aspx
One thing I noted was that it only happened to remotely connected computers on slow 3G connections (we use Direct Access). Never on LAN-connected computers with GB access or remote computers with fast (>15Mbps) access. We also use folder redirection,
which I think could be part of the problem, ie the share never goes online, atleast for us the issue was itermittent, it never happend all of the time, just from time to time. And if I disconnected and reconnected it could fix the issue for that particular
sessions, usually it didn't but occasionally it did (just pulling the network cable and put it back). Check the offline/online status the folders show up as offline even though they are online.
Enough of my ramblings. Sorry to hear you still have the problem and I hope you find a way to solve it.

Users are being logged into the desktop before the mapped drives GPO takes effect

We are using a Group Policy object to map network drives to our users. We are getting reports that the user are being logged into their desktop before the drives are mapped, causing a program that points to the mapped drive to not be able to access
files on that drive. Once the user goes into Computer and double clicks on the drive, they are then able to see the files on the drive and the program is able to access them as well.
We have added another GPO to institute the "Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon" policy to try to fix the issue, but it has not solved our problem.
Thanks in advance for any assistance.

> Once the user goes into Computer and double clicks on the drive, they
> are then able to see the files on the drive
Did you check the "reconnect" option?
Martin
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Unable to remove Mapped drives GPO

Hello
Windows Server 2008 R2
I previously create some mapped drives for users in 2 cities (same lan different ips - 10.10.2.x and 192.168.0.x)
Under each ou I have gone into the GPO preferences and created a "Delete" under map drives. When rebooting the workstations, the drives are still there and mapped. I deleted the GPO for them and still, they show up. I also created
a new mapped drive and is sporatic to users (some users it does show up, others it does not show up).
I cannot figure out why they are still being mapped or why only some users see the new mapped drive and some don't. Even those users that see the new mapped drive still see the old ones as well.
Any suggestions?
Thank you
Terry

Hi Terry,
There may be few things which you check
1. Run RSOP or GPresult on users system and confirm if the old / new groups are getting applied.
2. Make sure that group policy objects are replicated all domains Controllers in domain so that there is replication issue which is causing this behavior
3. As suggestion if you need map drives for these users then don't need create new delete map drive. You can remove the original map drive settings or filter out these set of users using item level targeting.
Hope this helps to resolve the issues.
Regards,
Rajesh J S

Cannot open Office documents through mapped drives - Opens Office start screen

Hi all,
So very strange issue here. (Windows 7 - Office2013 with Office365 subscription)
We have a user who reported that when they opened anything in Word or Excel etc, it simply does not open and instead goes to the Word (for example) start screen where it asks if you would like to start blank document etc.
Strange thing is, after some troubleshooting, I found that this issue only occurs when opening from the file server. Desktop is fine. Even stranger is that it only happens when opening the document via the mapped drives. When going through the full path
in explorer it works fine.
I have tried the below...
Office repair and clean re-install
Starting Word in safe mode - Recent docs that were opened from mapped drive do not work either
Adding users server credentials in Windows credentials manager (though not sure how to add for mapped drive - only for full path)
Disconnecting and re-adding mapped drives
Logging into another computer with this user works fine.
Logging in as another user on the laptop works fine too.
Thanks
Glen

Hi,
Since you have mentioned:
"Logging into another computer with this user works fine.
Logging in as another user on the laptop works fine too."
It's just an issue with the specific user on the specific computer, probably the Windows Profile has been corrupted.
The detailed steps to fix the corrupted user profile, please refer to this article below:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-hk/windows/fix-corrupted-user-profile#1TC=windows-7
If your computer is on a domain:
Open Microsoft Management Console by clicking the Start button
, typing
mmc into the search box, and then pressing Enter.‌ If you're prompted
for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
In the left pane of Microsoft Management Console, click Local Users and Groups.
If you don't see Local Users and Groups
If you don't see Local Users and Groups, it's probably because that snap-in hasn't been added to Microsoft Management Console. Follow these steps to install it:
In Microsoft Management Console, click the File menu, and then click
Add/Remove Snap-in.
Click Local Users and Groups, and then click Add.
Click Local computer, click Finish, and then click
OK.
Click the Users folder.
Click the Action menu, and then click New User.
Type the appropriate information in the dialog box, and then click Create.
When you are finished creating user accounts, click Close.
Restart the PC.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Melon Chen
TechNet Community Support

GPO Drive mapping - drive not visible but mapped

Did you double check your policy and make sure you selected "Show this drive" for that mapped drive?

HiI've got a weird issue and Internet has yet to give me a solution.So I've created a GPO that maps drives to certain users inOU's.Users that do not yet have a profile ona workstation get the drive mapped as expected. But users that have previously logged on to the workstations do not see the drive.gpupdate /force does not seem to resolve the issue. I ran a gpresult /H result.html and saw that the GPO succeeded in applying the user settings. I checked the drive with "net use" and there I could see that the drive was mapped butjust not visible in Windows. The drive letter I'm using is not used by another device. The reconnect checkbox is ticked in the Drive Maps properties.When I type the drive letter in the addressbar in explorer ( N:\) it works flawlessly so it's not a permission issue.So to summarize: drive is accessible and mapped...
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When logging on to Windows 7 user gets a second mapped drive to the users home folder

Morning,
I'm working through an issue we've discovered whilst trialing Windows 7. Our environment is setup as follows.
Domain Controllers are Windows Server 2003
Clients are Windows XP and Windows 7
Windows XP and Windows 7 Clients are in seperate OU's
All Windows XP Group Policies apply to Windows XP And Windows 7 clients, Windows 7 policies are then applied to Windows 7 clients after
Windows 7 policies are setup such that any setting defined in a Windows XP Group policy is left unconfigured in the Windows 7 Group policy and only new Windows 7 settings have been set in Windows 7 Group Policies.
We have users home folders mapped in their Account Directory account setting and set to H:\ to connect to
\\domainname\dfs\home\username
In addition we also as a fail safe map the drive via a login script using net use
This has worked fine for years in windows XP, if Active Directory failed to map the drive for any reason then the login script would then map the home drive.
In Windows 7 we have noticed a curious error. We found after a period of a couple of weeks we suddenly started getting a new drive mapped. This was identical to the H:\ drive mapping but was instead under drive Z:\. In other words, the
users home folder is mapped twice on h:\ and z:\. This is not affecting any of the Windows XP users.
I have gone through several logic reasons to ascertain why this has happened with the following findings.
1. Originally we thought the error appeared when we tried out mapping the home drive using the mapped drives functionality new in Windows 7 group policy under preferences > windows settings > drive maps. However, after forcing it to delete the
Z:\ drive using this functionality we only succeeded in removing it with a group policy present to do it. As soon as we removed that group policy the Z:\ drive came back
2. Secondly i thought the reason we would be getting a z:\ drive when we haven't specified it anywhere is because active directory is trying to map to the H:\ Drive but it is already present therefore in Windows 7 it tries to map to a different drive.
Using Windows logic it tries the highest letter first which is unlikely to be in use i.e. z:\. This makes sense because our logon script uses a net use h:\ command to map the drive and i believe by default these are set to perisistent. Therefore
the next time the user logs on H:\ is already mapped so the logic in Active Directory accounts maps the drive to Z:\ instead hence we end up with two mapped home drives. To test this i altered the login script to set the drive maps to
non persistent using persistent:no. The logic here was that when the user logged off the drive would become unmapped so that when Active Directory tried to map the drive it would be able to use H:\. Unfortunately this was not the case and
Z:\ remains.
3. Here is where i resolve the issue but i don't know why and is the bit i need answering. If i go into my account on Active Directory and go to Profile and set the home folder drive letter to another letter i.e. change from H:\ to U:\,
i get prompted to set full control etc and apply. I then set the drive back from U:\ to H:\, again i am prompted for setting full control which i accept.
NOW when i login i no longer receive a Z:\ drive and only get an H:\ drive. YAY, thats what i want, however, i do not understand why this is the case. At first i thought it might be something in the active directory logic when i login to an XP
machine and then login to a windows 7 machine. IF you bear in mind that although i get a new profile in Windows 7 i still retain the same home folder setting. However, after logging on an XP machine logging off then logging
on a Windows 7 machine i still didn't get the Z:\ drive back.
I have tried creating a new user that ONLY receives our Windows 7 Group Policies and still they receive both an H:\ and a Z:\ drive which rules out the Windows XP policies conflicting with the Windows 7 policies.
Does anyone have any ideas why i would get a second drive mapped to Z:\ logging into Windows 7 on a Windows Server 2003 domain?
Can anyone explain in more detail exactly how the Active Directory functionality works when you specify a connect to Drive letter for a users home folder?
My current workaround is simply to add a net use command to remove the Z:\ drive. I do not want to use Mapped Network drives using the new policy settings in Windows 7 RSAT because we have already found issues with it.
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We had the exact same issue happen to us. No issue on Windows XP but Windows 7 mapped two home drives (F and Z). F was mapped during the login script and Z was being mapped by some unknown reason.
We use Netapp for our storage and home drives and use a feature called CIFS Home Drive Mapping. This essentially maps a user to a folder not available through normal CIFS methods causing AD to error when setting the home drive. To get around this we use
dsquery and dsmod to modify this attribute in the user account. This is the command we used...
dsquery user -name %UserNameX% | dsmod user -hmdrv F -hmdir \\filer\$username$
Notice there is no ":" after the F
We determined the root causewas the value for the
homeDrive attributefor the user account was set to "F" instead of "F:"
When we updated our users to reference "F:" instead of "F" in their user, this problem was resolved.
Use LDP or some other method to verify that the homeDrive attribute is set to "F:" (or any other letter) or you will have this issue.

When using a personal dropbox account, is it possible to use the mapped drive without downloading all my dropbox files to my hard drive as well?

When using a personal (not business) dropbox account on my mac book pro, is it possible to use the mapped drive only? Currently I have dropbox mapped to my computer but it is also saving a redundant copy of the data on my hard drive. My goal is to pull, edit and save files on the mapped drive only without having a redundant back up of all my dropbox files on my computer wasting valuable storage space. Any advice out there? Thanks in advance for your help!

I don't believe that is accurate, but maybe I am missing something (I am not a Windows user).
Looking at 2 explanation of how to map a Dropbox as a drive…
http://lkeng.org/wp/?p=147
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d8uvseVr5A
Both of those are linking to the 'local copy' of Dropbox. It is not a true 'network' drive as far as I can see (it still requires the local copy on the PC).
Another video suggests using another service to mount the Dropbox, but that is not using Dropbox anymore, it is going through Otixo…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAIpm2qmglU
Dropbox does not provide easy to use URL's to mount as a network disk so I don't think this is possible on OS X.
Dropbox's forum has this too…
https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/communities/public/questions/202133795-How-to-ma p-dropbox-as-a-network-drive-on-Mac?loca…
You may need to examine the Windows computers carefully - if they have Dropbox installed & running then all the files are stored on the local machine in addition to the 'mapped drive'.
It looks to me like people are 'redirecting' the local copy to appear like a remote disk just so they can address that path on other machines - each PC is being setup the same. You could create aliases on OS X, but it doesn't help move files off the machine.
Hopefully someone else will contradict me, but I don't think this is how Dropbox works.

How do I assign a drive letter to the Ipad in Windows 8

Hi,
I deleted an important video file and some photos from my ipad.
Last few days I have spent ages trying to find a utility that will recover the files, but most of the 'ipad specific' software is a crock.
I thought if I could assign a drive letter to the Ipad when I connect it to me Windows 8 PC I could run any number of much more trsutworty and stable applications to try and recover the info. However, I have googled and googled and can't find a way to assign a drive letter to the Ipad.
Can anyone advise if this is possible?
thanks

You cannot. The iPad is not considered a removable storage device and will not operate as such normally.
There are software programs out there that will allow you to directly access the unit's internal memory. Google iFunBox. I don't know if it will give you low enough level file access to do what you want though and it certainly won't give you the ability to undelete files either. Whatever file access that's done is through iFunBox...you can't access the device (indirectly) through Windows Explorer (or Mac) even while running iFunBox.

Top Questions for HERE Maps & Drive & Transit

This thread is to share some of the common issues that are being raised in relation to the HERE Maps, HERE Drive and HERE Transit releases.
Currently split in to the following sections:
HERE Maps for Windows Phone
HERE Drive for Windows Phone
HERE Transit for Windows Phone
Nokia Maps & Drive for Symbian
HERE Maps for Windows Phone
Can I sync my Maps favourites from my Symbian phone to my Windows Phone?
Yes. Just sync the favourites on your Symbian phone with here.com. See the user guide of your Symbian phone for info on how to do this.
Your favourites in here.com are automatically synced with your Windows Phone, if you're signed in to your Nokia account with your phone.
Does HERE Maps work offline?
Yes, on Windows Phone 8 devices HERE Maps can be used also in offline mode.
With Nokia Maps on the Windows Phone 7 devices you need an online connection. In these devices the map data is streamed on as needed basis and it is not cached.
Can I start Drive navigation from HERE Maps in my Nokia Lumia phone?
Yes, on Windows Phone 8 devices you can start drive navigation from HERE Maps.
On Windows Phone 7 devices you need to go to the Nokia Drive application to start the navigation.
Why can't HERE Maps find my location?
Check that you've allowed HERE Maps and your phone to find your location.
In HERE Maps
Go to Settings in the HERE Maps app and turn on Use your location
In your phone settings
In your phone's main menu, tap Settings > location > on.
Things that can affect your GPS signal may include: being indoors, tall buildings, poor weather and some car windscreens. You'll also get a better fix on your location if you've got a data connection.
HERE Drive for Windows Phone
Can I use HERE Drive without a data connection?
Yes. To use HERE Drive offline, tap Settings and choose Connection. You can then toggle between offline and online.
Search results might be limited in offline mode. To be able to navigate offline, you need to download a map to your phone.
What is the difference between HERE Maps and HERE Drive?
HERE Drive is an application for voice-guided turn-by-turn driving navigation. HERE Maps is a map application which shows your current position and interesting places around you. You can also plan routes in HERE Maps but the app will launch HERE Drive for turn-by-turn navigation
What's the difference between HERE Drive and HERE Drive+?
HERE Drive offers turn-by-turn navigation in a single country or area, depending on the country of your SIM. Worldwide navigation is possible by purchasing an upgrade.
HERE Drive+ is a premium app that comes with worldwide turn-by-turn navigation from the start. You can use it with or without a SIM.
Users of HERE Drive can buy an upgrade to HERE Drive+ through the Windows Phone Store.
HERE Transit for Windows Phone
How do I install the HERE Transit application in my Windows Phone?
Download and install HERE Transit from Microsoft Store. Start Store in your phone and search for HERE Transit or browse in Nokia collection.
In Windows Phone 7 devices the corresponding app is Nokia Transport and it can be installed from Marketplace.
Why can't HERE Transit find my route?
If you're having trouble getting a route:
Make sure the date, time and time zone on your phone are set properly.
Check that you've got a data connection.
A point in your route might be in a region where no transport info is available.
The route is too long. HERE Transit is designed for use with local city public transport, not national or international transport.
Can I save routes in HERE Transit?
You can pin a journey from your current location as a tile to your Windows Phone start screen.
Select the options icon at the bottom of the screen, and then the pin icon.
Nokia Maps & Drive for Symbian
How do I install Maps 3.09 in my phone?
Maps 3.09 is available for compatible devices as part of the Nokia Maps Suite 2.0 bundle. Installing Nokia Maps Suite 2.0 will install the following applications in your phone:
Nokia Maps 3.09
Drive
Places widget
Public Transport v2
Weather (not available in China)
Guides
Check in (only available in China)
Map Loader
You can install Nokia Maps Suite on your phone through one of the channels below:
SW Update menu on your phone
Nokia Suite (select Software updates > Applications available)
Nokia Store (search for Nokia Maps Suite 2.0)
When installing via SW Update menu or from Nokia Store, it is recommended to use a Wi-Fi connection or a cellular connection with data plan because a large amount of data will be transferred during the installation. Note that the installation may take a while to complete.
After the installation you can launch the applications from the phone menu. You can add the application widgets also on the home screen (Map Apps, Places nearby).
Can Nokia Maps be used in offline mode to avoid data costs?
Maps can be used offline to avoid data charges, however the following will not be available in Offline Mode:
View Satellite maps
View Terrain maps
Search the latest address/POI database
Real-time Traffic and Safety updates
Share your status, photos and location to your Facebook profile (Maps 3.03 and later)
Get Weather forecasts
See local event info from WCities (Maps 3.03 and later)
Access Lonely Planet city guides (Maps 3.03 and later)
Access the Michelin restaurant guide (Maps 3.03 and later)
Synchronize your locations with Nokia Maps on the internet
You can switch between Online and Offline mode by going to the Maps Settings and
Select Internet or General
Select Connection or Go Online at Start-up
Please Note: Switching between Online and Offline mode in Maps will not prevent data charges through the user of Positioning settings such as AGPS and WiFi/Network positioning. These will need to be turned off in the Positioning Settings on your phone. Please see your phone manual for more information.
How do I know if there is an update available for the map data in Nokia Maps 3.x?
You can check if your device has the latest compatible Map data simply by connecting your device to a PC running Nokia Suite and selecting View > Go To > Maps.
If you are using Mac, download Map Loader for Mac and then check if there's an available update for Map data (applies only for Maps 3.04 and older, version 3.06 and later not supporting Map Loader for Mac).
With Maps 3.06 and later you can check the availability of map data updates and do the update over Wi-Fi (WLAN) connection by selecting:
Maps 3.06: Update > Check for updates.
Maps 3.08 and later: Map Loader > Check for updates.
How can I start Drive navigation in Maps 3.08 (and later)?
There is an icon for the Drive application available on your phone's home screen.
You can also start drive navigation from Maps:
1. Search for the destination.
2. Select the place on the map and its information area at the top of the screen.
3. Select Navigate, and Drive here.
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Sorry, I'd like to unresolve this. The workaround mentioned is not a solution.
I travel to loads of places by motorcycle, and going off the beaten track is wonderful. Since I upgraded My E6-00 and C7-00 to a Lumia 920, I'm back to allowing the SatNav (phone) to decide where I go. Boring dual carriageways and bypasses are now my natural habitat - bah humbug. Afterall, the phone is in my pocket (safe from weather), headphones in my helmet - I can't constantly look at a map. Having multiple 'favourites' and planning from one to the next isn't workable. Fair enough the Lumia 920 is usable with gloves on (major plus for a biker, come on you marketing people!) but I don't fancy re-routing all the time by the side of a road.
I'm also planning a charity cycle ride over 100s of miles this Summer, and while that can be done in BikeRouteToaster, Google Maps etc, there is no import function into 'HERE' that I can see. It's impossible to plan a route on the device itself. Yes it can route walker (I can't seem to get turn by turn working for that, but nevermind), public transport and car, I have an option to avoid motorways etc, but cycle route planning needs consideration for height metres, unpaved/paved roads (Google StreetView etc used a lot to find a Sustrans route is actually unfit for road bikes) etc. So.. Importing a route planned elsewhere (gpx, kml or something) would be a real alternative, or a workaround. Asking the device to do its own planning from one point to another really isn't workable.
Please make the Nokia's USP an actual USP again?

Software install in Windows 7 doesn't see mapped drives

I've looked through the related topics that came up when I started to write this, but I am not sure they answer my questions fully.
I am trying to install software on a Windows 7 box as the Administrator. My mapped drives are fine, I can see them and they are not dropping off to the middle of nowhere. What is happening though is that when I attempt to install software, the only thing
that is showing is my local drives, not my networked drives. My work around so far is do it via UNC.
Is there an easy fix for this or do I have to continue with my workaround of doing installs via UNC?

Hi,
I would like to confirm that does this issue occur on all the software you tried to install?
You may try to
disable User Account Control (UAC) to test the issue.
If it does not work, I also would like to suggest you enable NetBIOS to test the issue.
1. Click "Start", input "NCPA.CPL" (without quotation marks) and press Enter.
2. Right click on the connection that you use for the local connection, and then click "Properties".
3. Click Continue button to verify the administrator permission.
4. Click to select "Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)", and then click "Properties".
5. Click "Advanced" button in the open window. On the "WINS" tab, click to select "Enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP", and then click "OK" to save the setting.
If the issue persists, I also would like to suggest you disable the antivirus program and test the issue in
Clean Boot.
What is the result?
Regards,
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Group Policy Pref - Mapped Drives Not Applying to One User

Hi All,
I’m new to this list, so please excuse any etiquette slip ups. 
I have three users at a site. All their machines are running Windows XP Service Pack 3 and have client side extensions installed. I created a group policy to map their default drives using GP User Preferences.
Each of the drives is set to "update".
As an example of the policy created XML is as follows:
<Drive clsid="{935D1B74-9CB8-4e3c-9914-7DD559B7A417}" name="H:" status="H:"
image="2" changed="2009-11-25 05:13:58"
uid="{8A44D2F4-AAE5-4F43-AEEC-D36F08EA619C}" desc="Maps the users H drive to
ServerName\users$\%username%" bypassErrors="1"><Properties action="U"
thisDrive="NOCHANGE" allDrives="NOCHANGE" userName=""
path="\\ServerName\users$\%username%" label="Home (ServerName)"
persistent="1" useLetter="1" letter="H"/></Drive>
and
<Drive clsid="{935D1B74-9CB8-4e3c-9914-7DD559B7A417}" name="J:" status="J:"
image="0" changed="2009-11-30 03:52:58"
uid="{535CD462-A45D-4363-ADA1-2316D5ECC703}" desc="Maps J drive for users to
\\ServerName\apps" bypassErrors="1"><Properties action="C"
thisDrive="NOCHANGE" allDrives="NOCHANGE" userName=""
path="\\ServerName\Apps" label="Apps (ServerName)" persistent="1"
useLetter="1" letter="J"/></Drive>
The group policy is applied to an OU for that site.
All three users are in the same OU.
All three users are also in the same “xxsitecode Users” group.
2 of the users log into their pc and get the mapped drives with no issue, but one user doesn’t.
There are no other login scripts and the user has no manually mapped drives.
He does have a H drive mapped using the profile field in his AD object as a temp measure. But every 90 mins any other manually mapped drives are removed by the policy.
We don’t use roaming profiles
To trouble shoot I have tried
- Reinstalling client side extensions
- Re-joining the pc to the domain
- Running gpupdate from the command prompt to see if any event logs are generated (none are)
- Manually mapping the drives to make sure there is network access etc – I can manually map them/he can access them.
- Creating the user a new account, when he logs in using that account he gets his mapped drives on all PC’s
- Getting the user to log into a different pc, when he does this he doesn’t get his drives – so it’s not his machine or profile
- Manually checking the security on the user object in AD against one of the users who gets their drives mapped
I'm sure the GP is fine because it works for two other users and the testing isolates his user account as the issue.
The Policy I’m having issues with is xxxx Mapped Drives/ Printers
I have posted this issue on the tech net GP discussion groups page, but haven’t had any replies.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Simone

What's interesting is that I applied a new GP to users - it has one policy setting and one preferences setting. He only gets the policy setting.. aka he gets the wallpaper but not the homepage.
Also, Jorke asked me to post the gpresult /z .
Microsoft (R) Windows (R) XP Operating System Group Policy Result tool v2.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. 1981-2001
Created On 10/02/2010 at 2:19:34 PM
RSOP results for DOMAIN\USER on MACHINENAME : Logging Mode
OS Type: Microsoft Windows XP Professional
OS Configuration: Member Workstation
OS Version: 5.1.2600
Domain Name: DOMAIN
Domain Type: Windows 2000
Site Name: SITECODE
Roaming Profile:
Local Profile: C:\Documents and Settings\USER.DOMAIN
Connected over a slow link?: No
COMPUTER SETTINGS
 CN=MACHINENAME,OU=Laptops,OU=SITECODE,DC=DOMAIN,DC=com,DC=au
 Last time Group Policy was applied: 10/02/2010 at 1:06:38 PM
 Group Policy was applied from: XXXXXADC.DOMAIN.com.au
 Group Policy slow link threshold: 500 kbps
 Applied Group Policy Objects
 Allow Remote Assistance
 au-mdwsus
 Default Domain Policy
 Legal Notice
 Proxy Settings
 Logon as service, operating system
 AU-WSUS
 Desktop Background & Home Page
 Reg Permissions for default desktop
 Local Admin & Local Power Users
 The following GPOs were not applied because they were filtered out
 SITECODE Mapped Drives/ Printers
 Filtering: Not Applied (Empty)
 Local Group Policy
 Filtering: Not Applied (Empty)
 AVD Rollout
 Filtering: Disabled (GPO)
 The computer is a part of the following security groups:
 BUILTIN\Administrators
 Everyone
 Debugger Users
 BUILTIN\Users
 NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK
 NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users
 MACHINENAME$
 Domain Computers
 CERTSVC_DCOM_ACCESS
 Resultant Set Of Policies for Computer:
 Software Installations
 N/A
 Startup Scripts
 GPO: Desktop Background & Home Page
 Name: image.bat
 Parameters:
 LastExecuted: 7:55:34 PM
 Name: swiftdesktop.vbs
 Parameters:
 LastExecuted: 7:55:35 PM
 Shutdown Scripts
 N/A
 Account Policies
 Audit Policy
 User Rights
 Security Options
 Event Log Settings
 Restricted Groups
 System Services
 Registry Settings
 File System Settings
 Public Key Policies
 N/A
 Administrative Templates
 GPO: Allow Remote Assistance
 Setting: Software\policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services
 State: Enabled
 GPO: AU-WSUS
 Setting: Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU
 State: Enabled
 GPO: Allow Remote Assistance
 Setting: Software\policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services\RAUnsolicit
 State: Enabled
 GPO: Allow Remote Assistance
 Setting: Software\policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services
 State: Enabled
 GPO: Allow Remote Assistance
 Setting: Software\policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services\RAUnsolicit
 State: Enabled
 GPO: Allow Remote Assistance
 Setting: Software\policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\DomainProfile\GloballyOpenPorts
 State: Enabled
 GPO: Allow Remote Assistance
 Setting: Software\policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\DomainProfile\GloballyOpenPorts\List
 State: Enabled
 GPO: Allow Remote Assistance
 Setting: Software\policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\DomainProfile\AuthorizedApplications\List
 State: Enabled
 GPO: AU-WSUS
 Setting: Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU
 State: Enabled
 GPO: Allow Remote Assistance
 Setting: Software\policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services\RAUnsolicit
 State: Enabled
 GPO: Allow Remote Assistance
 Setting: Software\policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\DomainProfile\AuthorizedApplications\List
 State: Enabled
 GPO: Allow Remote Assistance
 Setting: Software\policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services\RAUnsolicit
 State: Enabled
 GPO: Allow Remote Assistance
 Setting: Software\policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services\RAUnsolicit
 State: Enabled
 GPO: AU-WSUS
 Setting: Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU
 State: Enabled
 GPO: Allow Remote Assistance
 Setting: Software\policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services
 State: Enabled
 GPO: au-mdwsus
 Setting: Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate
 State: Enabled
 GPO: Allow Remote Assistance
 Setting: Software\policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services\RAUnsolicit
 State: Enabled
 GPO: Allow Remote Assistance
 Setting: Software\policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services\RAUnsolicit
 State: Enabled
 GPO: au-mdwsus
 Setting: Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU
 State: Enabled
 GPO: Allow Remote Assistance
 Setting: Software\policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
 State: Enabled
 GPO: Allow Remote Assistance
 Setting: Software\policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services
 State: Enabled
 GPO: Allow Remote Assistance
 Setting: Software\policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\DomainProfile\AuthorizedApplications\List
 State: Enabled
 GPO: AU-WSUS
 Setting: Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU
 State: Enabled
 GPO: Allow Remote Assistance
 Setting: Software\policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services\RAUnsolicit
 State: Enabled
 GPO: Allow Remote Assistance
 Setting: Software\policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\DomainProfile\AuthorizedApplications
 State: Enabled
 GPO: AU-WSUS
 Setting: Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU
 State: Enabled
 GPO: au-mdwsus
 Setting: Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate
 State: Enabled
 GPO: Allow Remote Assistance
 Setting: Software\policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services
 State: Enabled
 GPO: Desktop Background & Home Page
 Setting: Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Security
 State: Enabled
 GPO: Allow Remote Assistance
 Setting: Software\policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services
 State: Enabled
 GPO: AU-WSUS
 Setting: Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate
 State: Enabled
 GPO: AU-WSUS
 Setting: Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU
 State: Enabled
 GPO: Allow Remote Assistance
 Setting: Software\policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services\RAUnsolicit
 State: Enabled
 GPO: Allow Remote Assistance
 Setting: Software\policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\DomainProfile\AuthorizedApplications
 State: Enabled
 GPO: Allow Remote Assistance
 Setting: Software\policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\DomainProfile\RemoteAdminSettings
 State: Enabled
 GPO: Allow Remote Assistance
 Setting: Software\policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services
 State: Enabled
 GPO: AU-WSUS
 Setting: Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU
 State: Enabled
 GPO: au-mdwsus
 Setting: Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate
 State: Enabled
 GPO: AU-WSUS
 Setting: Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU
 State: Enabled
 GPO: Allow Remote Assistance
 Setting: Software\policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\DomainProfile\RemoteAdminSettings
 State: Enabled
 GPO: Allow Remote Assistance
 Setting: Software\policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services\RAUnsolicit
 State: Enabled
 GPO: au-mdwsus
 Setting: Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate
 State: Enabled
 GPO: Allow Remote Assistance
 Setting: Software\policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\DomainProfile\AuthorizedApplications\List
 State: Enabled
 GPO: Allow Remote Assistance
 Setting: Software\policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\DomainProfile\AuthorizedApplications\List
 State: Enabled
 GPO: Allow Remote Assistance
 Setting: Software\policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services
 State: Enabled
USER SETTINGS
 CN=Matthew Luhrs,OU=Users,OU=SITECODE,DC=DOMAIN,DC=com,DC=au
 Last time Group Policy was applied: 10/02/2010 at 1:54:53 PM
 Group Policy was applied from: XXXXXADC.DOMAIN.com.au
 Group Policy slow link threshold: 500 kbps
 Applied Group Policy Objects
 Allow Remote Assistance
 **** SITECODE Mapped Drives/ Printers - has Gp Pref's that should apply
 Default Domain Policy
 Proxy Settings
 **** Desktop Background & Home Page - has Gp Pref's that should apply
 Local Admin & Local Power Users
 The following GPOs were not applied because they were filtered out
 AU-WSUS
 Filtering: Not Applied (Empty)
 Legal Notice
 Filtering: Disabled (GPO)
 Reg Permissions for default desktop
 Filtering: Not Applied (Empty)
 Logon as service, operating system
 Filtering: Not Applied (Empty)
 Local Group Policy
 Filtering: Not Applied (Empty)
 au-mdwsus
 Filtering: Not Applied (Empty)
 AVD Rollout
 Filtering: Disabled (GPO)
 The user is a part of the following security groups:
 Domain Users
 Everyone
 Offer Remote Assistance Helpers
 BUILTIN\Administrators
 BUILTIN\Users
 NT AUTHORITY\INTERACTIVE
 NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users
 LOCAL
 Computer Account Operators
 Internet Users
 SITECODE Users
 DOMAIN-Public Folders Administrators
 All Email Users
 DOMAINSWIFTEMAIL
 Domain Admins
 Offer Remote Assistance Helpers
 WSUS Administrators
 DHCP Administrators
 CERTSVC_DCOM_ACCESS
 Resultant Set Of Policies for User:
 Software Installations
 N/A
 Public Key Policies
 N/A
 Administrative Templates
 N/A
 Folder Redirection
 N/A
 Internet Explorer Browser User Interface
 GPO: Proxy Settings
 Large Animated Bitmap Name: N/A
 Large Custom Logo Bitmap Name: N/A
 Title BarText: N/A
 UserAgent Text: N/A
 Delete existing toolbar buttons: No
 Internet Explorer Connection
 HTTP Proxy Server: Proxy:port
 Secure Proxy Server: Proxy:port
 FTP Proxy Server: Proxy:port
 Gopher Proxy Server: Proxy:port
 Socks Proxy Server: Proxy:port
 Auto Config Enable: Yes
 Enable Proxy: Yes
 Use same Proxy: Yes
 Internet Explorer URLs
 GPO: Proxy Settings
 Home page URL: N/A
 Search page URL: N/A
 Online support page URL: N/A
 Internet Explorer Security
 Always Viewable Sites: N/A
 Password Override Enabled: False
 GPO: Proxy Settings
 Import the current Content Ratings Settings: No
 Import the current Security Zones Settings: No
 Import current Authenticode Security Information: No
 Enable trusted publisher lockdown: No
 Internet Explorer Programs
 GPO: Proxy Settings
 Import the current Program Settings: No

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