Re: How to Import XP SP2 ADM

From: Resonate (resonate_at_jolt.co.uk)
Date: 08/13/04 

Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 17:56:41 GMT

I presume you want to use the system.adm file from service pack 2 to take
advantage of the additional group policies availiable with its release to
control Windows XP clients.

The policies you already have in place will remain for clients and all new
settings will be set to not configured. You can then go ahead and change
these as you wish to turn off things such as windows firewall on the domain
etc.

Im not sure what you mean by delaying the deployment of SP2 by 120 days.
The adm file will not achieve that. What engine are you using to deploy the
service pack?

Block policy inheritence stops policys above it in the OU stucture from
effecting client/machines in a lower down OU much like NTFS file
permissions.

To see what policies are in effect on a windows XP client simply run
rsop.msc from any client.

Hope this helps

"Diane" <dmc_news@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:5d0a01c4814d$bafffce0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> We want to block the auto update of XP SP2 for a period of
> time and it would be advantageous to the use ADM file MS
> provides. However, since we mostly deal with small
> customers only a few of our clients use AD. As such, we
> have no experience importing an ADM file and feeling
> confident it will work. Can someone advise what we would
> need to do to use the ADM to effect the SP2 auto update
> 120 day block? I can see in the AD properties for the
> Users a tab for Group Policy with an Add button.
> Presumably, I can add the ADM, but then what? Is is
> applied by virtue of this add or is there something else
> required? There is also a check box for "Block Policy
> Inheritance" which I'm not sure I would want to enable or
> not. And finally, how can I tell the policy is really in
> effect.
>
> Thanks for all help. I realize this is probably a really
> basic question, but we just don't deal with this area at
> all and don't have the cycles to apply the block system by
> system.
>
> Diane