Why are group policy preference drive mappings not applied to the domain administrator account?

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Published on 2012-09-25T07:38:49Z Indexed on 2012/09/25 15:39 UTC
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I have a working policy on my entire domain. I just found out, when logging with the domain administrator, that this policy is not applied (EDIT: Running : gpresult shows that the GPO's are applied - but, this GPO is for Drive Mappings, and the actual drive mappings are NOT shown)

  • The administrator account - does not have any login script on his profile tab.
  • To note: The mappings were applied before the GPO with a login script using the : net use ... command - all was working perfectly and correctly for the domain administrator user as well - That removes sharing and security problem (IMO)

  • My GPO's are mainly small/atomic settings: single GPO to handle each settings: UAC, Firewall, printers.

  • GPO status for the object is enabled

That's an overview of the Drive Maps:

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Reading on MS support site, I checked the delegation tab, and it is marked as applied to domain and enterprise admins.

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Every user gets these policies correctly.

The OU that is set is the root of the domain. (for testing purpose - I did that to eliminate hierarchy issues - did not help)

  • Block Inheritance is disabled. (never used it anyway)

GPO link

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GPO Security Filterings

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