One thing I've run into with targeting to be aware of, and I saw also posted to an MS forum, is that they don't like group nesting. Haven't seen anything official, but we had to change a few things because of it. Basically "is a member of" means a direct member of that group, not a member of a nested group.
From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 1:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Is IFMEMBER still OK to use on a modern network? They are pretty straightforward - edit the object, go into preferences, windows settings, drive maps To apply via certain criteria, go to Properties and use the Item-level targeting feature. This allows you to add Items, which are criteria to apply the group policy to certain OSs, sites, IP scopes, security groups, etc. It is all pretty self-explanatory once you dig down into it and has never failed for me yet 2009/12/15 Don Kuhlman <drkuhl...@yahoo.com<mailto:drkuhl...@yahoo.com>> Anyone got a good Group Policy Preference tutorial site on how to do this? I'm using logon scripts to map drives and it's not reliable. I'm using the user's profile to map their home drive but also need to set up Shared drives based on their site. Thanks Don K ________________________________ From: James Rankin <kz2...@googlemail.com<mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com>> To: NT System Admin Issues <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com<mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>> Sent: Mon, December 14, 2009 9:35:42 AM Subject: Re: Is IFMEMBER still OK to use on a modern network? Bin your logon scripts, and use Group Policy Preferences. Vastly easier. You can use net user rather than ifmember if you want to use native Windows commands in logon scripts. I'd still go the Group Policy Preferences route though 2009/12/14 RM <r...@richardmay.net<mailto:r...@richardmay.net>> My boss wants to add some intellegence to our logon scripts with IFMEMBER. I had planned to use Group Policy user logon scripts. Is IFMEMBER still kosher on modern Windows networks? I know it's pretty old technology... Thx, RM -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
