Archive for the ‘Group Policy’ Category
Setting Default Printers with Group Policy Preferences
Had an interesting question from a reader in response to setting a default printer with Group Policy Preferences that I thought I would share.
Question was:
If you set a user general default printer like the main office copier but also set a location printer preference like the library copier using the loop back policy will it over ride the general default printer preference?
Do I merge or replace?
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Using Group Policy Prefernces to Map Drives
The other day I wrote an article on how I use Group Policy Preferences to Deploy Printers and Set the Default Printer. Today I wanted to share with you how I go about mapping network drives to particular users based on their AD DS Group Memberships. In days gone by this was don via a vbs login in script, but let me show you how this can be done via GPP.
Simple scenario, we have a group of Media students that need a drive mapped to a different “Media Backup Server”, so what I have done is put these students into and Active Directory Group called “Media Students”.
So in my Students GPO I simply went to User Configuration > Preferences > Windows Settings > Drive Maps
