Windows 10: GPO Mapped Shared Drives Disappearing - Unable to run gpupdate

Our IT team has noticed a problem with a variety of seemingly related symptoms on several different machines, with multiple different user accounts, each in a different OU for policy.The initial problem that is obvious is that user's network drives are disappearing when then sign in. These drives are currently mapped via group policy, but we suspect that the the replace/delete option is not working cleanly and causing things to hang up. I was able to get one error specific to mapping the drives in event viewer indicating the drive was already in use, even though it was not details at end.

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GPO Drive Mapping Change

Hi,

I use GPO's for drive mapping using security groups. We setup a new server and moved the contents of a share from the old server to the new one. So we went from \\server-share\share to \\shared-server\shares\share$.

I set the GPO to the new path \\shared-server\share$ and set it from update to replace.

The GPO runs without error, but the new share will not apply to the computers.

On the new server, I applied the security group to the share and gave it full read/write access.

All the existing network shares work just fine.

I checked the firewall on the new server and the ports are opened (incoming-Domain) for:

NB-Name 137/UDP

NB-Datagram 138/UDP

NB-Session 139/TCP

SMB 445/TCP

I am at a loss as to what would be preventing the script from mapping to the new share.

I will also add a net use command will map the share, but the GPO will not apply the mapping for some reason.

Any help? Thanks!

 

Unable to disconnect Mapped drive

Hi,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.



As you have mentioned that you have removed the mapped drives through GPO and still the drive keeps appearing, I suggest you to try removing the mapped drive by running the Net use command in Command Prompt and see if that helps. Please follow the
steps mentioned below:

1. Press Windows key + S, and type Command Prompt.
   
2. Right click on the Command Prompt icon and select
   Run as administrator.
   
3. Now, type net use f: \\financial\public /delete
   (Replace f: \\financial\public with the drive name)
   

For more information on Net use command, you can refer the article
Net use.



If the issue persists, I suggest you to post your query in TechNet
forums, where we have support professionals who are well equipped with the knowledge on the GPO and mapped drivers to assist you with the appropriate details.



Regards,

Nikhar Khare

Microsoft Community - Moderator

 

GPO Mapped network Drives mapping in Win 10 but not Win 7


Traced it through logs it appears to be a script failure from GPO saying it cannot find the specified file. Also appears to be giving Access denied when trying to manually map and doesnt map home drives or the shared drive to the win 2k8 server but it does to the win 2k12 server