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In this video, I demonstrate how you can use SDM Software's Group Policy Automation Engine and PowerShell, to populate Group Policy Preferences drive mappings within a GPO.

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Creating GP Preferences Drive Mappings using SDM Software's Group Policy

Darren Mar-Elia: Hi, this is Darren Mar-Elia CTO and founder of SDM Software. And I'm gonna run you through a quick demo a script that I wrote using the group policy automation engine to do group policy preferences drive mapping. As you can see from my screen, here's the script that I show in the blog posting and essentially what it's doing is this main function here, map drives, is going and creating reference to the group policy object using our group policy automation engine power shell Command Lite getting a reference to the drive map's path and then creating the drive mapping item itself and then actually doing a item level target based on security groups for this particular security group. But I'm actually feeding it a list that I'll show you in a second into the item level target. And then, I'm associating the item level target with the drive mapping and saving it to the GPO.

So if we have a quick look at the input files, socially, just to see as V file that got four columns drive letter share, domain, and group name where it's -- I'm basically just telling it what drives and shares and groups I wanna apply this particular policy to. So if I go ahead and bring up power shell and call my script map drives, it just goes through one by one and writes the drive mappings. And I could have -- in this case I only have four but I could have 20 or 50 or 200 drive mappings that it could be applying to this GPO. And now, if I bring up GPMC, go ahead and refresh this drive mapping policy, you'll see that all of my drive maps are here and the various groups that I've applied to them within the CSV file are there. And if I go ahead and pullout the public properties, you can see the location, the drive letter, et cetera. So within, you know, less than ten seconds I've managed to populate four drive mappings. It could have been, as I mentioned, 40 or 50 within the group policy object using the group policy automation engine.

If you visit our website at www.sdmsoftware.com and click on the group policy automation engine product under the products page, you can get a trial version of the product that you can try for up to 15 days. Thanks very much for listening.