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How do I create a script to map non-mapped network drives?

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by rob_annable 1 view

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Hi everyone, thanks in advance for any help you can offer on this.

I work in the SD for a financial company who have scripts to map network drives for all users when they log in to their machines. This fails probably 10% of the time and with 600+ staff it means a lot of calls!

Its easily fixable, there are vbs scripts for each department so when they call, I just remote on to their machine and run the appropriate script which forces the mapping.
I was wondering if there is a way to run a command in powershell/cmd locally on my machine to make this quicker? Somehow running a query thats says "If this user on X hostname has 0 network locations mapped, run the appropriate logon script again and map them"

Any ideas you have would be fantastic and save a lot of time on each call.

Come on TR gurus, I know you can do this :)
Rob

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by kenone

That doesn't work? In my experience that nearly always works. You could just copy a shortcut to the script to their desktops and, when the logon script fails just have them double click the icon.

by markp24

Hi

you can place it in the startup folder so it runs twice.

by rob_annable

I want a command line solution to map it for the users, I could ask them to log out and back in which might sort it but its an inconvenience for the user to do this...

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