Logon Script in Windows 7
Hej all! These login script trouble and other various problems were discuess to death but I got another one for you: In the Windows 2003 Server enviroment, we have some Windows 7 workstations/laptops. Now I have compiled togehter logon script, that has no errors in it and is distributed by default domain policy. Now the script definately runs - BUT - only in Windows 7 I get this strange behaviour; it does not connect network drives defined in it, but if I go to the server share and run it manually, the drives are connected corectly and are there. I tried this with UAC on and off, I tried sleep the script, I tried to distribute it trough user policy - nothing seems to work. Can aynone shine some ligh on this issue and how to proceed? Note that other settings are processed just fine...foe example I added the strMsgBox to test it out and the message box is opened just fine so the iteration goes trough mapping drives logic... Thanks in advance!I am the First One.
February 11th, 2011 7:32am

Hej all! These login script trouble and other various problems were discuess to death but I got another one for you: In the Windows 2003 Server enviroment, we have some Windows 7 workstations/laptops. Now I have compiled togehter logon script, that has no errors in it and is distributed by default domain policy. Now the script definately runs - BUT - only in Windows 7 I get this strange behaviour; it does not connect network drives defined in it, but if I go to the server share and run it manually, the drives are connected corectly and are there. I tried this with UAC on and off, I tried sleep the script, I tried to distribute it trough user policy - nothing seems to work. Can aynone shine some ligh on this issue and how to proceed? Note that other settings are processed just fine...foe example I added the strMsgBox to test it out and the message box is opened just fine so the iteration goes trough mapping drives logic... Thanks in advance! I am the First One. I experienced the same issue and simply settled on mapping drives w/ Group Policy Preferences. Works fine for XP & 7. We had similar issues after XP SP3 which required us to forcefully disconnect/delete the drive mappings, then map them in the script. You might try this for your 7 PC's.
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February 11th, 2011 6:30pm

hm, interesting proposal - now why I didn't think of that; but the real issue is if drive mapping is supported per user - we need that because many individual users are using specific mappings, that is also why we use logon script - it can check logon username and od specific stuff for him... EDIT: I can see that I can assign as many group policies as I want BUT there is catch; the logon process is starting to get very slow as so many policies are appliying...and advice on that?I am the First One.
February 12th, 2011 5:02am

I don't have it in front of me so I'll go off of memory and just the logic. Our script basically does this: check for windows version if "6.1" goto :Win7 if "whatever XP was" goto :XP ...etc :Win7 If %variable on computer or AD% = personnel then goto :PER If %variable on computer or AD% = engineering then goto :ENG .... ...etc :PER net use x: /delete net use y: /delete net use z: /delete net use x: \\computer name \share name /persistent net use y: \\computer name \share name /persistent net use z: \\computer name \share name /persistent ... check personnel app versions... ...other stuff :ENG net use a: /delete net use b: /delete net use c: /delete net use a: \\computer name \share name /persistent net use b: \\computer name \share name /persistent net use c: \\computer name \share name /persistent check engineering app versions... ...other stuff ... ... goto :EOF :WinXP ... ... ... goto :EOF :EOF ...last minute stuff ... Or you could just have it call a different batch or .vbs file for each dept./OS/etc Or depending on how many variations of drive mappings you have...if you don't have too many you could as you said just make a GPO for each and scope them accordingly. As for the logon process time, I know our XP boxes take quite awhile to logon but our 7 boxes w/ the same scripts take about 1/4 the time. I disabled the logon script section for 7 and have been using just Group Policy for about 2 months now and 7 is still a day & night different to our XP boxes running solely on scripts for things like that. Your environment may be radically different that ours so I couldn't say which is best for you. I hope that helps.
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February 12th, 2011 2:52pm

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