Hi to all,
I want to offer here a solution and I will hope that someone can confirm within his envrionment that it will work too.
Active Directory Environment:
My ADS is running on Windows 2012 and my fileserver which is currently providing the file share is running on Windows 2008 R2. I have created the Drive Mapping based on Group Membership.
What I have done?
1. Clean up the ActiveDirectoy DNS from Scratch (approx. 10 Minutes with 3 Minutes Network outage)
1.1. Switch your ADS Zone out of the ActiveDirecotry on each DNS and make a Default non Active Directory Stored Primary Zone only
1.2. Delete all related DNS Zones now. Don't worry you will be still able to log on to the Domain Controller even if you uninstall the DNS Service from each Domain Controller
1.3. Same for the Reverse Lookup Zones
1.4. AD Synchronization (don't take a look at the EVENTLOG at this Point ;-) )
1.5. On the Primary ADS DC which hold the FSMO roles or u need to do it on the Infrastructure Master:
recreate the DNS Zone of your Active Directory. If you create the Zone select replicate to all DNS within the Forest.
i.e. if your Domain Controller FQDN is dc01.company.lan than only create a Active Directory stored Zone with the Name: company.lan
1.6. After less than 5 seconds you will see the ADS related DNS entries are rebuilded
1.7. Now you have two Options: Reboot ornet stop netlogon AND net start netlogon on all DC's. I recommend to reboot.
1.8. ActiveDirectory is back and you are able to add missing entries and alias
2. Activate IPv6 on DHCP
2.1. If you have no clue about IPv6 take this link below:
http://www.simpledns.com/private-ipv6.aspx
2.2. Create your Zone and also the reverse Zone
2.3. Now important:
DO NOT ASSIGN ANY FIXED IPv6 Address to your Environment because this is somehow not working at this Point.
2.4. Don't make any changes within the DHCP Options within DHCP Server.
2.5. Wait until every Server is listed within the IPv6 Scope of your DHCP
2.6. Right click on the DNS Server with the IPv6 Address and select "Make Reservation"
2.7. Don't know if it was required but I rebooted the file Server. And now - check your Windows 8!
3. Logon with Windows 8 to the Domain
3.1. Enjoy your drive mapping
4. The core question
4.1. Hope someone can explain this to me why this is fully working with IPv6
4.2. Don't know why it's working but I keep it as it is until I understand why it's working :-)
Now, here are some screenshots. I don't care about the current IPv6 Address because I will change this soon. And you can see that the Option "Hide Drive" is also working now. Take a look at Drive "X":
And one also interesting thing is the DHCP / DNS thing. I know that this IPv6 Address is DNS Server because this is one of two Domain Controller:
I hope there will be a final solution for the drive mapping thing. It's working but I don't know why.