GP Functionality???

sihfmis

I want to set up a new group in a new OU and have the OU map to a certain
drive (the mapping is done thru the script process). Then, I want to add this
new group to user's "members of" and have the new mapped drive appear for the
user. Also, the user is part of another group/ou. Is this doable? If so,
how?

Florian Frommherz [MVP]

Howdie!

sihfmis schrieb:
> I want to set up a new group in a new OU and have the OU map to a certain
> drive (the mapping is done thru the script process). Then, I want to add this
> new group to user's "members of" and have the new mapped drive appear for the
> user. Also, the user is part of another group/ou. Is this doable? If so,
> how?

As of my understanding of you issue, you are trying to put a security
group (with a user as a member) into an OU and want to link a policy
with a script to it? That won't work. Group Policy does not apply to
groups. You need to have the user account in that group.

Try to restructure your OU-design so that you don't need to use an extra
group to have multiple policies applied to one user.

cheers,

Florian
--
Microsoft MVP - Windows Server - Group Policy.
eMail: prename [at] frickelsoft [dot] net.
blog: http://www.frickelsoft.net/blog.

Jacques Schett

I think what you WANT to do is create a logon script that will map
drives (and printers, etc) based on group membership. Create a policy
that is attached to an OU for this user. Then, create a script that
checks the user's group membership (if/then/else) to assign mappings.
It's not that hard to do. I have some samples we did for mapping
printers based on department memberships as well as drive mappings.
There's a ton of info on this on the web, too. Just google "VBScript
group membership" and you'll find a bunch of great examples.

In your search, keep in mind that this is NOT a difficult task so be
wary of long winded scripts. You can do this in a few statements (our
smaller ones are something like 30 lines or less.) I've seen some of
these that are crazy long (pages of VBscript code.) KIS

-JS-

>Howdie!
>
>sihfmis schrieb:
>> I want to set up a new group in a new OU and have the OU map to a certain
>> drive (the mapping is done thru the script process). Then, I want to add this
>> new group to user's "members of" and have the new mapped drive appear for the
>> user. Also, the user is part of another group/ou. Is this doable? If so,
>> how?
>
>As of my understanding of you issue, you are trying to put a security
>group (with a user as a member) into an OU and want to link a policy
>with a script to it? That won't work. Group Policy does not apply to
>groups. You need to have the user account in that group.
>
>Try to restructure your OU-design so that you don't need to use an extra
>group to have multiple policies applied to one user.
>
>cheers,
>
>Florian

Paul Bergson [MVP-DS]

Yeah you will need to do some scripting.

Check out Microsoft's scripting page:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr...r/default.mspx

As well as Richard Mueller's script site
http://www.rlmueller.net/

--
Paul Bergson
MVP - Directory Services
MCT, MCSE, MCSA, Security+, BS CSci
2003, 2000 (Early Achiever), NT

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"Jacques Schett" <homeless@paris.fr> wrote in message
news:3hvbd3t4s9r974di6g47iap58ecil38uc5@4ax.com...
>I think what you WANT to do is create a logon script that will map
> drives (and printers, etc) based on group membership. Create a policy
> that is attached to an OU for this user. Then, create a script that
> checks the user's group membership (if/then/else) to assign mappings.
> It's not that hard to do. I have some samples we did for mapping
> printers based on department memberships as well as drive mappings.
> There's a ton of info on this on the web, too. Just google "VBScript
> group membership" and you'll find a bunch of great examples.
>
> In your search, keep in mind that this is NOT a difficult task so be
> wary of long winded scripts. You can do this in a few statements (our
> smaller ones are something like 30 lines or less.) I've seen some of
> these that are crazy long (pages of VBscript code.) KIS
>
> -JS-
>
>>Howdie!
>>
>>sihfmis schrieb:
>>> I want to set up a new group in a new OU and have the OU map to a
>>> certain
>>> drive (the mapping is done thru the script process). Then, I want to add
>>> this
>>> new group to user's "members of" and have the new mapped drive appear
>>> for the
>>> user. Also, the user is part of another group/ou. Is this doable? If
>>> so,
>>> how?
>>
>>As of my understanding of you issue, you are trying to put a security
>>group (with a user as a member) into an OU and want to link a policy
>>with a script to it? That won't work. Group Policy does not apply to
>>groups. You need to have the user account in that group.
>>
>>Try to restructure your OU-design so that you don't need to use an extra
>>group to have multiple policies applied to one user.
>>
>>cheers,
>>
>>Florian