Drive mappings

Mapping network drives is essential to the way that most companies do business. Data is power, data is currency. All organizations create and own new data every day, and they all need a place to store that data. You're certainly not going to let users keep the only copies of their documents on local hard drives, so you of course have file servers to store this data. While the landscape of file storage is ever-changing, especially lately with the move to hyper-converged infrastructure, the fact that your users need drives mapped to those file-storage locations hasn't changed. There are multiple ways that drive mappings could be handled within Windows, including logon scripts that we could run via Group Policy, but let's take ...

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