Re: AARGH!! win2003 GPO is driving me NUTS!

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Amen! In my humble opinion, using Security filtering for GPOs should be
used sparingly and only to achieve very narrow objectives, such as not
applying certain user settings to administrators when Loopback processing is
used (e.g. on Terminal Servers).

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"lforbes" <UseLinkToEmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
>> made a new security group with that user and his computer
>>i added that user in the default domain policy ==> security ==> read
>>and
>>apply gpo deny.
>
>
> I am not sure why you would want to mess with setting security groups
> when you can just create an OU, put a GPO on it and move the users
> into it that you want to apply the policy to. It makes far more sense
> and doesn't mess anything up. Try it that way to see if the policy is
> working fine and then try with the security settings again.
>
> Leave the Security Settings on the Default Domain Group Policy alone
> though or you could run into problems.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Lara
>
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