SteveAllen

Thanks Chris I will give this a try. Kind Regards, Steve

Hi Ben Just to confirm the users are logging in at home with cached credentials. Kind Regards, Steve

Hi Ben Just to confirm, when the user goes home they are logging on using cached credentials. Kind Regards, Steve

OK Just to confirm, do you think the best way for me to map the drives is with one GPO which has "delete all" as number one and then the rest of the drives with Item Level targeting. Also, should this be applied at an OU level rather then a site level? Kind Regards, Steve

Hi Chris, How do you map your network share is it via GPP or scripts? Kind Regards, Steve

My understanding was when using GPP for mapping drives you do something like this: 1. Delete all drives --Item Level Targeting ----Apply if IP Range is NOT in x.x.x.x 2. Replace --Location: \\nas04\support --Label: NAS04 - Support (Reconnect is unticked) --Use: Y --Item level targeting-- ----Apply if IP Range IS in x.x.x.x and so on for the rest of the drives. I have 5 of these policy. One for each of my site. When a user goes to "Site A" they get the drives mapped for that site. This works great when the user is within our network but the problem happens when they are not on site, eg, when they are at home. When the user is at home the laptop seems to be trying to locate the mapped drives because the "delete action" is not applied when they are at home because they are not in the site. This is what I think is happen. However when you manually delete the mapped drives at home the laptop can log on normally within a few seconds. Any thoughts? Kind Regards, Steve

Thank you for your input Waldronm2000. However I think Ben may be correct. The problem I am having is relating to when the users have been on a site and then take their laptops home. I have done some testing and the logon delay is solved by manually deleting the mapped drives. As I am using GPP at the site level I don't think the "delete" action comes into effect because the user is not at that site. Would it be better for me to just make one map drive GPO and apply it at an OU level? Instead of having a separate one for each site? Kind Regards, Steve

Please could you expand on this?

Hi Please could I have some advise on the best way to map network shares at multiple sites. At the moment I am using Group Policy Preferences to map the network shares for each site. I have applied the policy at the "site" level. In the policy I have set a "delete" as first in the order. I was hoping this would delete the shares when the user is no longer in that site. However when a user goes home and logs onto the laptop they experience a long delay whilst logging on. Is it best to just have one policy for mapping drives and apply it at an OU level using item level targeting to set the IP range for it to apply? Kind Regards, Steve