Comments on: Map network drives on cloud-managed Windows devices

By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 13:33:14 +0000

Spent quite many hours looking for solutions to this issue. This one is easy to setup and robust, worked right away. Thank you!

By: Brendan

Brendan — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 12:18:57 +0000

In reply to Peter Klapwijk.

Hi Peter,

Thank you for your response, I’ll take that in mind.

Kind regards,

Brendan

By: Peter Klapwijk

Peter Klapwijk — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 12:32:52 +0000

In reply to Brendan.

Hi Brendan,

It doesn’t take much resources to run multiple scheduled tasks, so I don’t see a reason to not do it. Depending on your PowerShell skills you could also add some logic in one script to map a drive mapping only when the user has access. But that’s what I leave to the real PS guru’s 🙂

By: Brendan

Brendan — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 11:12:42 +0000

Hi Peter,

Thank you for sharing these scripts. Would you recommend against creating separate tasks for each drive mapping. E.g. instead of one task with all available drive mappings, a separate task for each drive-letter? So users only get a drive-mapping if they have access to the files?

Kind regards,

Brendan

By: Peter Klapwijk

Peter Klapwijk — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 18:13:46 +0000

In reply to LearningIntune.

You need to wrap the 3 scripts with the WIN32 prep tool found on GitHub https://github.com/Microsoft/Microsoft-Win32-Content-Prep-Tool

And than use an install command like PowerShell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -file .\DriveMappingsv1.0_CreateScheduledTask.ps1

Good luck with it!

By: LearningIntune

LearningIntune — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 03:51:43 +0000

Could you please share details with how you packaged it as an Intune app? Specifically, what to enter in the install command fields, etc.

Thank you

By: Peter Klapwijk

Peter Klapwijk — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 19:17:30 +0000

In reply to Michael Piet.

Hi Michael,

I’m not saying one solution is better than the other. It depends on your own needs.
The benefit of this solution is that it (re-) connects the drives at every network change to avoid ending up with disconnected network drives. In our environment, we found this more stable than deploying (and running) a script once or deploying it via ADMX.

Regards,

Peter

By: Michael Piet

Michael Piet — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 21:59:44 +0000

Hi,
Is your technique better than those offered in the below two links?

https://github.com/nicolonsky/IntuneDriveMapping/wiki#adding-network-drive-mapping-entries

https://call4cloud.nl/2021/03/willy-wonka-and-the-drive-letter-factory/

By: Peter Klapwijk

Peter Klapwijk — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 11:29:28 +0000

In reply to Khiro.

Hi Khiro,

This definitely isn’t a mistake. It is a misconception local resources are not available using Entra joined devices. When your user identities are synced from the local AD to Entra ID, resources like file shares are available as long as the device is able to reach the resources. When the device and file shares are on the same network, or for example using VPN the file shares are reachable and network drive mappings can be connected.

Regards,

Peter

By: Khiro

Khiro — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 10:14:02 +0000

Hi,
are you sure you haven’t made a mistake? You probably mean this applies to HybridJoin devices! EntraID Join devices are not authorized to access local resources because their UPN is not Domain\User but AzureAD\User, unless you use Entra DS or connect the local domain via gateway to Azure.
Kind regards
Khiro