What I'm looking for (and not sure if it's possible) is that we have 16 mapped network drives that are mapped when any user logs on, what I would like is to cut this down to just one visible drive yet leaving the other ones still usable to certain programs. I would just un-map them, however one of our constantly used programs writes to almost all of the drive letters so they need to be mapped for just that program, however they do not need to be visible to the user. Is this possible?
Networking – Hiding mapped drives for all users but letting programs access them
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Best Answer
This can be done with group-policy (doc). It hides the drives in Windows Explorer, but the drives are still accessible through other means, such as the command-line or API calls from programs.