I have several Drive Maps set in a GPO with Replace.  Through out the day, the drive mappings get refreshed where some users cannot save documents after the drive was refreshed or the drives disappear all together.

Is there any way to change this so once they log in, the drives stay for as long as they are logged in?

System is Windows Server 2012 R2

• Edited by Bill Fry Wednesday, May 27, 2015 4:57 PM

Put it in the Login Script.

Create a logon script that points to map drive & enter the login script path on user properties on active directory users & computers

Thanks for the replies, but that is not what I want.  There are drives that employee's do not need to see and if I put it in a script, they will see the drive even though they will not have access to it.

Of course you can have the script that checks for permissions before applying it

Have you tried GPO but with an update instead of replace, with "replace"  every GPO cycle or about 90 mins it disconnects and recreates the drive mapping with "update" it only disconnects if the drive mapping has changed. I went through the same thing the only bummer is you cannot change the group policy from replace to update you have to recreate all the preferences with the update property, since I changed from replace to update no more issues with users getting disconnected from share while working.

• Edited by Darren Blanchard Wednesday, May 27, 2015 8:18 PM spelling
• Proposed as answer by Frank Shen5Microsoft contingent staff, Moderator 54 minutes ago

> I have several Drive Maps set in a GPO with Replace.   Either change to "Update" or enable http://gpsearch.azurewebsites.net/#4852 and uncheck "Apply without changes".   I'd suggest using the first method :)  

Hi Bill,

>>There are drives that employee's do not need to see and if I put it in a script, they will see the drive even though they will not have access to it.

I agree with others. We can change the action to Update. Besides, if we want to map a drive to just specific users, we can utilize Group Policy Preferences Item-Level Targeting to do this.

Regarding GPP ILT, the following articles can be referred to for more information.

Preference Item-Level Targeting

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc733022.aspx

Security Group Targeting

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc772471.aspx

Best regards,

Frank Shen