Windows Server 2012: How to activate network discovery in GPO?

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I use terminal-server Windows Server 2012 and I need to create a map drive GPO, but it doesn't take effect and I think it might be because I nee to activate network discovery.

How to enable network discovery in GPO in Windows Server 2012?

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:14

Enabling Network Discovery shouldn't have any affect on mapping network drives via a GPO. It's more for "browsing" to a network share.

Regardless, if you want to enable it via GPO:

Computer Policy\Policies\Administrative Templates\Network\Link-Layer Topology Discovery. There are two settings there:

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The first setting allows the computer to find network resources such as file shares. The second setting allows other computers to find this one.

Credit given to James Summerlin.

You may want to browse over this question as well, even though it states 2008 R2: Cannot enable network discovery on Windows Server 2008 R2 -- it might give you better insight.

The way an answer should be. – Brad Bouchard Apr 26 '14 at 02:37 — Brad Bouchard, Apr 26 '14 at 02:37

Windows Server 2012: How to activate network discovery in GPO?

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