Map Network Drive Windows 11, no admin tools

Question

Hello,

On our domain, users have admin tools blocked. We need to map network drives for some users outside the GPO and would like to do it manually. When trying to map the drive with net use command the drive will not show up in File Explorer.

The option to map a network drive with the File Explorer GUI does not appear from no admin tools GPO for users.

How do we get an elevated File Explorer to map the network drive or can a admin logon and map the drive for all the users that use that PC

Answer 1

Hello,

 

Thank you for posting in Q&A forum.

Please kindly try below steps to troubleshoot the issue:

1. Please run CMD or PowerShell with elevated permission to map the network drive:

net use Z: \server\folder /persistent:yes

New-PSDrive -Name "Z" -PSProvider FileSystem -Root "\server\folder" -Persist

2.Create a Script file with command inside and execute it with elevated permission.

 

I hope the information above is helpful.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to let us know.

 

Best regards，

Jill Zhou

 

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