Theldron Posted June 27, 2022 Posted June 27, 2022 Hi all, Hope you are well. The head at one of my schools is having a problem, where when they are working from home, and using word etc. The laptop will hang for a short amount of time. I think this is due to the mapped drives being present but of course disconnected. I have had experience in the past where this can happen. Is there anyway in GPO that the mapped drives will not create if the user is not onsite? Or would that be through a script? Thanks.
aac Posted June 27, 2022 Posted June 27, 2022 Hi there Presumably this laptop is connecting to the schools network through a VPN? If so what sort of VPN is it that you are using? 1
Theldron Posted June 27, 2022 Author Posted June 27, 2022 No, no VPN, we use Offline files for the user drive, but staff and studentshares are not connected. They are present but just have the red X on them when used offsite.
Theldron Posted June 27, 2022 Author Posted June 27, 2022 I know that having mapped drives present but not accessible when working from home, can cause issues of hanging etc, as file explorer tries to access it. So is there a way that the mapped drive is only created if the network is connected?
aac Posted June 27, 2022 Posted June 27, 2022 Unfortunately I am not aware of any way to have the GPO not apply when outside of the network largely because if outside of the network it has no way of contacting a server in order to read a location based policy even if it was possible. Your best options are going to be migrate the user to cloud based storage or configure a VPN. In our case we use Always On VPN device tunnels. 1
Foresthippy Posted June 27, 2022 Posted June 27, 2022 From a purely technical point of view, you could create a batch file with a net use command to delete all the mapped drives, show the head how to run it, and see if it improves their experience at home. 1
jr_ Posted June 28, 2022 Posted June 28, 2022 Also give this a go, reducing the timeout may help https://superuser.com/questions/453741/how-do-i-set-the-windows-network-timeout-for-physically-disconnected-mapped-driv 1
Theldron Posted June 29, 2022 Author Posted June 29, 2022 Also give this a go, reducing the timeout may help https://superuser.com/questions/453741/how-do-i-set-the-windows-network-timeout-for-physically-disconnected-mapped-driv Brilliant ill give that a go, thanks all.
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