Sam's IT Knowledgebase

I recently came across an issue where a user was suddenly unable to browse through the network places / network discovery in Windows 10. Long story short but they were using an application which you could only browse to folders, so using a shortcut was not an option so they used this feature to browse to the file server shared folders. The fix was kind of simple, on the file server just enable the "Function Discovery Resource Publication" service.

I recently had a request from a user where they wanted everyone in their department to have a particular folder location mapped in their Quick Access location. I came across a Powershell script which is able to do this $o = new-object -com shell.application $o.Namespace('Folder location here').Self.InvokeVerb("pintohome") I did then have further problems with SCCM not being able to deploy this script as it kept coming up with 0x01 error. To get around this I then had to create a package which was a batch file calling the powershell script with the following command: powershell.exe -executionpolicy remotesigned -File "File Location and name.ps1" exit /b %errorlevel% Note when doing this I had to run with the user's rights rather than the local administrators, and also set it to run only when a user is logged on.