Mapping a SharePoint Site

[mdrabble]

We have moved our Shared Documents over to SharePoint and all working fine apart from some issues with opening files for Computer Sciences which when they download them, they are being Zipped.

 

Normally not a problem, but I have blocked ZIP files for students as I was fed up of them downloading their OneDrive contents on a regular basis.

 

So, I thought I would Map a network drive to the SharePoint site - and hey presto problem solved (well in theory)

 

 

I've added the SharePoint site to Trusted sites in Internet Options GPO

 

I have passthrough authentication enabled, so Edge logs in straight away to Office 365, but the Drive failed to Map at logon due to use being un-authenticated.

 

 

Open Internet Explorer, run gpupdate and suddenly it works!

 

 

Anyone know of a way I can get the SharePoint Site to map automatically at logon?

 

Cheers

[Rob_D]

I think you'd need to use a script of 3rd party utility to make sure the authentication happens before the drive is mapped. We've always used DMS's OneDrive Connect app, but for a free solution I'd probably just look at a way to automate IE running and either a gpupdate or map the drive by script as the last thing during logon (maybe from the start menu>startup folder).