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Setting an Env. variable during start-up - 6/14/2007 12:41:54 AM

J.Ennenga

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Hey guys,

I have the following problem,
I want to set a system variable that is immediatly available to be used bij the GPO that follows after the login script.
The variable will be used to map the My Documents folder to a specific drive (depending on the first number of the username) the mapping looks like this:
\\DC1\%SU%$\%USERNAME%
The script below is executed before the GPO's are applied and after the first logon I can see that the variable has been set correctly.

The problem is that the GPO cannot use this variable at the first logon attempt, it's only after the second logon that this variable becomes available to the GPO and the mapping succeeds.

I've made the following VB script:

Any suggestions will be highly appreciated!

Jelle

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RE: Setting an Env. variable during start-up - 6/14/2007 1:42:37 AM

ebgreen

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Environment variables are tied to the session that a process is operating in. So even if the GPO update happens later, if the session that executes it is already running before the env change then the GPO will not se it.

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