Standard AD - auto-map a network drive

Note: This post is part of a series (Part 3):

• Part 1: AWS managed AD - first steps after creation
• Part 2: AWS managed AD - add user RDP permissions
• Part 4: (AWS managed) AD - give local admin rights to domain users

Situation: You have this beautiful AD system, and you want to auto-map a network drive for your users using AD GPOs.

Problem: You don’t know how.

Solution: This post.

• open group policy editor
• create USER policy “AD GPO map network drive”
• edit it
  • select “USER configuration / preferences / windows settings / drive maps”
  • right-click “new”
  • create share
• you should force-apply the new GPOs on the target host using gpupdate /force

Hint: It’s easiest if you perform thost actions as the DOMAIN\Admin user, so you don’t have to enter that user’s password all the time.