Manage map drive GPO clearly

Question

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.

Answer 1

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