Hi James,
Depending on your needs, you have at least three
options:
A. Create shortcuts to all the target locations, which
causes LNK files to be generated. Copy these LNK files to the NetHood folder in
each users profile. If you put this in a login script, it takes care of any
changes. There are also other ways to generate these shortcuts, such as
WSH/VBScript.
B. Copy all those shortcuts in a single network share, and
direct your users to first open that share (or perhaps put a shortcut to it on
their desktop).
C. Publish the target locations as Shared Folder (volume)
objects in AD, and put the AD search dialog in your users' Start menu as a
shortcut with the command rundll32 dsquery,OpenQueryWindow
Yours, Sakari
PS. The targets in each method can be subfolders of
shares--that is, \\server\share\sub\sub
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Blair, James
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 12:32 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Scripting My Network Places:All,Am trying to get users away from mapped network drives as it is driving me insane as we have numerous sites all with different network drives. Have looked at My Network Places and it offers the functionality we need i.e. ability to synchronise offline (Users Home Drives) and you can have more than 24...One good thing with Mapped Network Drives however is that you are able to script them and add them to an OU etc. Have any of you done this for My Network Places I did a registry trace when I added one and found the below key but when I manually add a new Multi String Value I get nothing...any ideas would be great as there is not much on the web...[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\PublishingWizard\AddNetPlace\LocationMRU]James
