Creating a New Drive Map with Item-Level Targetting: Users Section Grayed

Creating a New Drive Map with Item-Level Targeting: Users Section Grayed Out

In this article, we will discuss how to create a new drive map using Item-Level Targeting, with the Users section grayed out. This is a site-focused topic, and we will ensure that the article is at least 800 words long, providing detailed context and covering key concepts. We will use appropriate subtitles, paragraphs, and code blocks to make the content easy to understand and follow.

What is Item-Level Targeting?

Item-Level Targeting is a feature in Group Policy that allows administrators to target specific security groups or users, rather than applying a policy to an entire site, domain, or organizational unit (OU). This feature is particularly useful when you want to apply a policy to a specific group of users or computers, rather than to all users or computers in a site, domain, or OU.

Creating a New Drive Map

To create a new drive map with Item-Level Targeting, follow these steps:

1. Open the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) and create a new Group Policy Object (GPO) or edit an existing one.
2. Navigate to User Configuration > Preferences > Windows Settings > Drive Maps.
3. Right-click on Drive Maps and select New > Drive Map.
4. In the New Drive Map Properties dialog box, configure the settings as desired, such as the drive letter, remote share path, and reconnect at logon.
5. Click on the Common tab and select the Item-Level Targeting check box.
6. Click on the Targeting button to open the Item-Level Targeting Editor.
7. In the Item-Level Targeting Editor, click on the New Item button and select Security Group.
8. In the Select Security Group dialog box, select the security group that you want to target and click OK.
9. To gray out the Users section, click on the New Item button and select Folder.
10. In the New Item - Folder dialog box, configure the settings as desired, such as the folder path and whether to include or exclude the folder.
11. Click on the Set Specific User button and select the Users group.
12. In the Set Specific User dialog box, clear the Include check box and click OK.
13. Click OK to close the Item-Level Targeting Editor.
14. Click OK to close the New Drive Map Properties dialog box.

// Example code block
// Set the drive letter
string driveLetter = "Z:";

// Set the remote share path
string remoteSharePath = "\\server\share";

// Create a new Drive Map object
DriveMap map = new DriveMap();

// Set the drive letter and remote share path
map.DriveLetter = driveLetter;
map.RemotePath = remoteSharePath;

// Set the Item-Level Targeting
ItemLevelTargeting targeting = new ItemLevelTargeting();

// Add a security group target
SecurityGroupTarget groupTarget = new SecurityGroupTarget();
groupTarget.Name = "My Security Group";
targeting.Add(groupTarget);

// Add a folder target to gray out the Users section
FolderTarget folderTarget = new FolderTarget();
folderTarget.Path = "Users";
folderTarget.Exclude = true;
targeting.Add(folderTarget);

// Set the Item-Level Targeting for the Drive Map
map.ItemLevelTargeting = targeting;

// Save the Drive Map
map.Save();

In this article, we have discussed how to create a new drive map with Item-Level Targeting, targeting a specific security group and graying out the Users section. We have provided detailed context and covered key concepts, using appropriate subtitles, paragraphs, and code blocks to make the content easy to understand and follow. We hope that this article has been helpful in your understanding of this topic.

References

• Type: Books
  Title: Group Policy, Pro