Location based drive mapping

[MACIT]

Ok here we go, a challenge for the week!

 

I am trying to map a drive drive in a windows environment based on the users location (AD OU in fact)

 

Basically we have a confidential area and I do NOT want to map the drive when say a head of year is in a classroom.

 

We operate mandatory profiles which further complicated matters.

 

Any suggestions gratefully received

[MYK-IT]

Group Policy Preferences (Windows Settings > Drive Maps) with Item-level targeting enabled.

 

Works with Windows XP Clients upwards, and 2003 (and upwards) based Domains.

Edited March 8, 2011 by MYK-IT

[superfletch]

Be careful about laptop users as their location wont change.

 

You could set a system variable on all the machines and then based on the value of the variable decide whether to map the drive or not using an if statement.

 

The way MYK-IT suggests sounds better.

[SkreeM1980]

You could use a login script on the OU that checks if the computer is/isn't a member of a specified group in AD. or depending on your computer naming convention do it by a part of the name. e.g. all our classroom computers have PRJ in the name.