With Drive FS installed on each Session Host in a Collection Pool, you can then create a custom group policy object (GPO) and link it to the specific organizational unit (OU) for the Collection Pool.

You may pre-install the application on a custom OS image that you then deploy to your Collection Pools, or you may use a third-party management application to install the application on each Session Host after they are created. This can be achieved by creating a custom image with Drive File Stream installed, or by using a third-party package management solution to install Drive Stream after Session Hosts are created.Ī group policy object to set several registry keys to enforce Drive FS behavior, create a target folder in each user's profile for Drive FS, and running a logon script to create a user-level drive mappingįollow the instructions provided by Google for deploying Drive File Stream on your Session Hosts. To use this functionality, the following configuration will be used:ĭrive File Stream must be installed on each Session Host in the Collection (or Collections) that users will access. Although every effort has been made to ensure accurate data, itopia does not provide any support for the configuration described below. NOTE: This article is provided for informational purposes only. This article will describe using a custom group policy object to achieve this configuration.

To resolve this, the Drive FS data must be mapped to a unique directory for each user and, optionally a user-level drive mapping must be configured to present the mapped H: drive (or any other drive letter) only to a specific user. In a multi-session environment such as Remote Desktop Services, this creates an issue where multiple users can see each others' drive folders, although the contents of the drives are inaccessible. The default behavior provided by Drive FS is to map the user's Google Drive data to a system-wide network drive on their Windows Desktop.

Google Drive File Stream (Drive FS) is a utility that allows users to access their Google Workspace Drive data like a local drive on their Windows desktop.

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