How To Create A Logon Script Server 2008

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I wrote a .vbs map user drives script that works locally on the windows 7 computer. I want to automatically execute it on a logon into a Windows 2008 R2 Domain. how do I do this?

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Jun 8, 2012 at 17:37 UTC

Group Policy Preferences is the way to go with drive and printer mapping, but if you need a logon script, you don't have to just use .bat, GPO will accept and run .vbs as well. I have a script that writes to the event log the users name, IP address of the PC and of course the time and stuff. I got in the habit of doing this to better be able to track who was logged on a system with a certian IP at a certain time. Easier than wading through the security logs. This script is a .VBS and it used to include drive mapping and printer mapping until I learned about GPP.

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You'll need to create a .bat file that calls the VBS.

Stack Overflow has a question like this that should help.

Then open up GPO and configure your login script.

The big question is why not do everything from AD/GPO without the use of a script?

If you're only mapping drives, that can be done within GPO, without using the script, it's less likely to cause issues.

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I am not a group policy expert. Eventually I want to map drives based on the User Group membership. How do I do this in the GPO?

Thanks.

Barry4552 wrote:

I am not a group policy expert. Eventually I want to map drives based on the User Group membership. How do I do this in the GPO?

Thanks.

here you go

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Barry4552 wrote:

I am not a group policy expert. Eventually I want to map drives based on the User Group membership. How do I do this in the GPO?

Thanks.

here you go

You sir blew my mind. This is something I have been looking for. I just didn't know what questions to ask.

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Jun 8, 2012 at 17:37 UTC

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Used Group Policy to accomplish this. Thanks, Jeff

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Oct 18, 2012 at 21:04 UTC

Thanks Berry! Lots of ways to skin the cat.

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