Best way to map server shares to drives

I've always used logon.bat for mapping server shares to client network drive letters. However, I'm being told that setting up group policies is the proper way to map network drives. Anyone have any insight on this? It seems that group
policies at this level are kind of buried in Server Essentials, so it makes me think MS didn't intend for Server Essentials to use GPs for things like this.
If GPs is the proper way to map network drives, is there a good howto for this? I didn't have any luck the first time I tried this.
Thanks,
Greg
Greg Zartman

Hi Greg
I suggest you try the following.
1. Create a GPO and link it to the relevant users OU.
2. Right clink on the GPO link and select Edit.
3. Select User Configuration and expand Preferences > Windows Settings.
4. Select Drives Map and right click on the right side of the window then select NEW > Mapped Drive
5. within the opened window in the Action select CREATE.
6. Then type the folder location and select a drive letter.
7. Under Show/Hide Drive select Show this drive / show all drives and remember to check the Reconnect box in order to reconnect at log-in.
8. Then navigate to Common Tab. Check the box Item Level Targeting and select Targeting in order to assign to which user group you would like to assign it. Apply and OK
9. Go to CMD and type gpupdate /force
10. logoff/logon the users and test.
You are done. :)
Aref

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