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So let's have some fun with drive mapping policy.

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So I'm going to go ahead and I've created a GPO and I'm going to go ahead and edit it.

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And I'm going to set user configuration preferences, control panel settings and sorry, windows settings,

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drive maps.

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And I'm going to go ahead and create a new map drive.

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And the location is going to be a DFS share that I have.

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And it's called are two test scuttled.

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Backslash user backslash public.

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And I'm going to label it as the public drive so that everyone knows when they map out what they're

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getting.

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And I'm going to say reconnected, log on and I'm going to say use the P drive and I'm going to leave

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all the other options alone, except what I'm going to do is come in under item level targeting and

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I'm going to create an item level target and I'm going to say do security group and I'm going to browse

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to the sales users group, just type in sales and it'll return all the groups that start with sales.

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I'm going to pick the sales users group.

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So what I'm saying is if the user is in the group, then this evaluates to true and the preference should

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apply.

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And I'm going to go ahead and set that and it's set to update.

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That means it's going to map the driver once and then not keep trying to map it every time I log on.

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And that'll be a good thing.

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It'll take less time to get to the user's desktop that way.

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If I were to put it on replace mode, then every time the user logged on it would remove the map, drive

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and re-edit.

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So now I have my map drive defined for all members of the Sales Users Group.

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Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to link this to my sales users.

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Oh, you saw it will take effect.

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And then I'm going to go over to my Windows client.

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Now I'm logged into this Windows seven client as Joe Sales.

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And if you'll recall from an earlier module, I mentioned that Preferences Drive Mappings was one of

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those client side extensions that requires a foreground synchronous refresh, just like software installation

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or folder redirection.

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So I'm just going to confirm I don't have any drive mappings available right now.

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I got this one here, but I'm going to go ahead and disconnect.

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And I got a nice, clean environment, no drive mappings.

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I'm going to go ahead and bring up my command prompt and type update and target the user because this

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is a per user preference that I'm getting and I'm going to tell it that essentially I want to get this

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drive mapping.

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Now again, note that it's telling me that in this case I still have a folder redirection, policy error

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or policy message telling me that I've got some client side extensions that need to do foreground work.

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So great.

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I knew that.

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And I knew that I need to do for preferences or I'm sorry for drive mappings.

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I need to log off and log back on.

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So I'm going to go ahead and do that.

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One thing to note about that, log off and log back on requirement for preferences.

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Drive mappings in Windows 8.1 and above that requirement actually goes away.

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So if this were a Windows 8.1 or Windows ten system and I had just done the update, if I came into

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the Explorer and went to my computer, I would see the drive mapping to the public drive that I had

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specified in the preference without having me log off and log back on.

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So of course this is Windows seven, so I am going to go ahead and log off.

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And now I'm logging back on and you'll see it's applying group policy drive maps.

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It went by pretty quickly.

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And I'm going to bring up the Explorer.

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Go to computer.

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And there's my public drive.

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So it's been mapped.

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It's called public drive.

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And there's nothing in it right now.

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But it's essentially named it for me and done the mapping for me to that DFC share.

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So I was able to seamlessly get to my drive maps and because I was a member of the sales users group,

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IT process that preference just fine.

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Now I wanted to bring up one thing that you may have seen in some of my past demos and wondered how

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it got there.

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You'll notice when I was logging in that you were seeing messages flash across the screen showing you

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which policy area was processing as I was logging in.

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And that's actually controlled by a group policy setting, and it's an admin template setting that you

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can set.

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And I tend to set it on all the machines in my domain because there is generally it's great information

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to have to know what's going on as the users logging on.

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It's under computer configuration admin template system.

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And if I go down, you'll see this policy called verbose versus normal status messages.

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If you enabled this policy.

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Then those verbose messages will appear when the user logs on or when the machine starts up or shuts

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down.

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So you'll be able to see the progress of, in this case, group policy processing.

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And I know this has nothing to do with what I was just talking about with preferences drive mappings.

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But I think it's useful to have this information to know about this policy, because it can help us

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see that in this case, group policy preferences drive mappings was actually running at that last log

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on.