Add a Mapped Drive to a User Profile Using GPO

1. Log into the Group Policy Management console
2. Create a new group policy and link it to the OU as needed
3. Using Security Filtering remove all group from the filter. Then add back the single group that was used to assign File Permissions
4. Right click the GPO and select the Edit option
5. Navigate to User Configuration > Preferences > Windows Settings > Drive Maps
6. Right click and select create a new drive map
   1. Under the action tab set to update when creating a new drive map or when updating an existing map
   2. Under location set the full network path of the network share
   3. Check the reconnect box
   4. Label the drive with whatever you wish
   5. For drive letter, best practice is to use the same drive letter every time. Select something not likely to be taken by something else.
7. Select OK to save the drive map
8. Close the GPO editor
9. Run a Gpupdate /force on the client computers
10. The new network drive should appear in the file explorer