Re: policies not applying
From: Mike Finch (smiffinch_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/02/04
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Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 03:15:57 -0800
Thanks for this.
Unforunately, all other policies are working fine; all
clients are pointing to internal DNS server; GPresult
shows that the policy is being applied even though it has
no effect.
It's a mystery!
Mike
>-----Original Message-----
>Hard to say, may be a DNS problem. Are no policies
working? Make sure all
>your clients are pointing to your internal DNS server.
Also run gpresult
>from a command prompt on a client to see what, if any,
policies are being
>applied.
>
>"Mike Finch" <smiffinch@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:314901c3fd27$bb0b7cf0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>> We have a native mode W2K domain (originally installed
as
>> an in-place upgrade from an NT4 domain) with W2k servers
>> and W2k pro, XP pro and NT4 SP6a clients.
>> There are two group policies that are not getting
applied.
>> Windows Update always gets "Access Denied" when you
visit
>> the URL; I've applied a policy at domain level to
disable
>> the "Remove access to Windows Update" but it doesn't
make
>> any difference. You have to manually change the registry
>> (HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current
>> Version\Policies\Explorer\nowindowsupdate) on each and
>> every machine in the domain to access the url in IE.
>> Secondly, there's a folder redirection policy to
>> redirect "My Documents" to \\servername\%username% which
>> seems to apply to user accounts within domain admins
>> groups using W2k Pro and pleb clients running XP pro but
>> not other pleb W2k Pro clients.
>> The "Apply Group Policy" permission is set to apply to
all
>> authenticated users on both problem GPOs. I've tried "No
>> Override" I've tried removing the policy altogether and
>> applying the settings in the "Default Domain" policy and
>> the "Default Domain Controllers" GPO - all to no effect.
>> Any ideas anyone?
>> Thanks...
>> Mike
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