Best Practices: Drive Mapping

Dashrender

They owner refuses to use Outlook,.. and mail is via Google for all staff... so there is that issue too.

How is this an issue? Heck, ask him to fully commit to Google - you could go all the way to Google Docs - or you could simply use Google Drive with the Google Drive add-in for Office.

Sure, Quickbooks can't work with that, but hopefully that is a smaller group to worry about.

Dashrender

@Minion-Queen said:

@gjacobse The owner refuses to use anything Microsoft period. He uses office because QuickBooks requires it.

How so?

DustinB3403

@Minion-Queen said:

@gjacobse The owner refuses to use anything Microsoft period. He uses office because QuickBooks requires it.

You refuse to use Microsoft anything?

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said:

@Minion-Queen said:

@gjacobse The owner refuses to use anything Microsoft period. He uses office because QuickBooks requires it.

How so?

Bookkeeper.

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

@Minion-Queen said:

@gjacobse The owner refuses to use anything Microsoft period. He uses office because QuickBooks requires it.

How so?

Bookkeeper.

Awww

gjacobse

@Jason
Your are right Jason,.. Shares are dependent on the User - nothing to do with the computer.

gjacobse

@DustinB3403 said:

@Minion-Queen said:

@gjacobse The owner refuses to use anything Microsoft period. He uses office because QuickBooks requires it.

You refuse to use Microsoft anything?

Client. NTG does not (nor will it ever as I know) use QB...

stacksofplates

@gjacobse said:

@DustinB3403 said:

@Minion-Queen said:

@gjacobse The owner refuses to use anything Microsoft period. He uses office because QuickBooks requires it.

You refuse to use Microsoft anything?

Client. NTG does not (nor will it ever as I know) use QB...

Are they on Windows? Or are they using a Mac?

gjacobse

@johnhooks

Both....

stacksofplates

@gjacobse said:

@johnhooks

Both....

So they refuse to use anything Microsoft, except for their biggest product? Weird.. Anyway, I don't know if it's possible on a Mac, but can you mount the folders via ssh?

nadnerB

If you have to map a drive, then Group Policy is the way to go.

Edit: removed incorrect info. Source article had a very misleading title

nadnerB

You could also schedule a task to run your drive mapping script.

gjacobse

As with any system, you should always swing back around and re-visit issues.

With the help of the group here, and other resources i hope to go over the GPP and see what I can clean up and improve.