Group Policy Management and Mapped Drives

On 6/29/2020 9:03 PM, Zaidy036 wrote:
On 6/26/2020 10:35 PM, Paul wrote:
Zaidy036 wrote:
I have the problem of Windows 10 losing mapped drives and the
solution appears to be making a change/addition to Group Policy as
shown he
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1139165-windows-10-losing-mapped-drives?page=2


The "best solution" is "Change the drive to "Update" in group policy
and the issue will disappear!"

I do not have the "Local GP Editor" location "User Configuration
Preferences Windows Settings Drive Maps" and there are no entries
in the GP Management GUI.

The instructions I find to add Drive Maps to the GP require that I
use GP Management and to us it login to a domain which I cannot
figure out how to do.

I hope someone can show me how to do this on my home PC that, as far
as I know, is not on a Domain. The drive is an NAS currently
configured as N: and I have already issued a NET USER /P:YES command.

That's probably this sort of baloney.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/pre...4%28v=ws.11%29


I don't think that's for non-Enterprise users. It's
intentionally nasty. The page explaining it is a mile long.

Â*Â*Â* Paul
The more, one looks the more one finds. Another interesting possibility
is "System Unattended Sleep Timeout" which is a hidden setting that can
override "Never Sleep" in "Power Management".
See
https://winaero.com/blog/add-system-unattended-sleep-timeout-to-power-options-in-windows-10/

And
https://winaero.com/blog/how-to-open-advanced-settings-of-a-power-plan-directly-in-windows-10/


Implementing this with Unattended set to "0"= never appears to have
stopped the unwanted screen saver operation. More tests to follow. FYI I
am using Mystify.scr set to 600 minutes which is unsecured for 10 hours
and overnight for my batch run is not the problem but during the day is
if I left the house without manually running the scr.

On 6/30/2020 12:00 PM, Zaidy036 wrote:
On 6/29/2020 9:03 PM, Zaidy036 wrote:
On 6/26/2020 10:35 PM, Paul wrote:
Zaidy036 wrote:
I have the problem of Windows 10 losing mapped drives and the
solution appears to be making a change/addition to Group Policy as
shown he
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1139165-windows-10-losing-mapped-drives?page=2


The "best solution" is "Change the drive to "Update" in group policy
and the issue will disappear!"

I do not have the "Local GP Editor" location "User Configuration
Preferences Windows Settings Drive Maps" and there are no
entries in the GP Management GUI.

The instructions I find to add Drive Maps to the GP require that I
use GP Management and to us it login to a domain which I cannot
figure out how to do.

I hope someone can show me how to do this on my home PC that, as far
as I know, is not on a Domain. The drive is an NAS currently
configured as N: and I have already issued a NET USER /P:YES command.

That's probably this sort of baloney.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/pre...4%28v=ws.11%29


I don't think that's for non-Enterprise users. It's
intentionally nasty. The page explaining it is a mile long.

Â*Â*Â* Paul
The more, one looks the more one finds. Another interesting
possibility is "System Unattended Sleep Timeout" which is a hidden
setting that can override "Never Sleep" in "Power Management".
See
https://winaero.com/blog/add-system-unattended-sleep-timeout-to-power-options-in-windows-10/

And
https://winaero.com/blog/how-to-open-advanced-settings-of-a-power-plan-directly-in-windows-10/


Implementing this with Unattended set to "0"= never appears to have
stopped the unwanted screen saver operation. More tests to follow. FYI I
am using Mystify.scr set to 600 minutes which is unsecured for 10 hours
and overnight for my batch run is not the problem but during the day is
if I left the house without manually running the scr.

I just found a batch that restores all disconnected network drives and
after a little testing it appears to work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8KVJdgewNk Download is in first comment.

Zaidy036 wrote:
On 6/30/2020 12:00 PM, Zaidy036 wrote:
On 6/29/2020 9:03 PM, Zaidy036 wrote:
On 6/26/2020 10:35 PM, Paul wrote:
Zaidy036 wrote:
I have the problem of Windows 10 losing mapped drives and the
solution appears to be making a change/addition to Group Policy as
shown he
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1139165-windows-10-losing-mapped-drives?page=2


The "best solution" is "Change the drive to "Update" in group
policy and the issue will disappear!"

I do not have the "Local GP Editor" location "User Configuration
Preferences Windows Settings Drive Maps" and there are no
entries in the GP Management GUI.

The instructions I find to add Drive Maps to the GP require that I
use GP Management and to us it login to a domain which I cannot
figure out how to do.

I hope someone can show me how to do this on my home PC that, as
far as I know, is not on a Domain. The drive is an NAS currently
configured as N: and I have already issued a NET USER /P:YES command.

That's probably this sort of baloney.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/pre...4%28v=ws.11%29


I don't think that's for non-Enterprise users. It's
intentionally nasty. The page explaining it is a mile long.

Paul
The more, one looks the more one finds. Another interesting
possibility is "System Unattended Sleep Timeout" which is a hidden
setting that can override "Never Sleep" in "Power Management".
See
https://winaero.com/blog/add-system-unattended-sleep-timeout-to-power-options-in-windows-10/

And
https://winaero.com/blog/how-to-open-advanced-settings-of-a-power-plan-directly-in-windows-10/


Implementing this with Unattended set to "0"= never appears to have
stopped the unwanted screen saver operation. More tests to follow. FYI
I am using Mystify.scr set to 600 minutes which is unsecured for 10
hours and overnight for my batch run is not the problem but during the
day is if I left the house without manually running the scr.

I just found a batch that restores all disconnected network drives and
after a little testing it appears to work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8KVJdgewNk Download is in first comment.

"BattleNonSense / ReconnectNetDrives.bat"

https://gist.github.com/BattleNonSen...58f28924ce277b

The download is a tiny ZIP file.

https://codeload.github.com/gist/fb2...ab7a6ee31365f5

Paul