Re: set group policy to be stored at local DC?

From: Darren Mar-Elia (fermentedgrape_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/20/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 10:12:21 -0700

Alex-
You need to make this connection from the GPO Editor, not AD Users and
Computers. If you go to the View, DC Options menu, you can choose which DC
to focus on for GPO editing.

Darren

"Alex" <nospam@spam.spam> wrote in message
news:ukN09CuJEHA.204@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Yes, that would make sense to me as well. Edit the GPO locally on my
> 'branch' DC and then it would eventually replicate to the PDC Emulator
> (FSMO?).
>
> So while I've been in the ADUC console I've right clicked on the top of
the
> tree and selected the option 'Connect to Domain Controller' and then
> selected the machine I'm on. It still doesn't make any difference though
> and can take a minute to display the policy and almost 5 minutes to expand
> another branch such as 'Administrative Templates'.
>
> Is the above what you meant? Or have I done something completely
different
> :)
>
> Couple of bits of other information is the 'branch' DC is also a GC and we
> are win2k3.
>
> Regards,
> Alex
>
> "Dmitry Korolyov [MVP]" <d__k@removethispart.mail.ru> wrote in message
> news:%23ASz20tJEHA.1096@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> By default when you edit the GPO, the application connects to the DC with
a
> PDC emulator FSMO and opens the GPO from there. That is your case, I
> believe - since from the branch office that DC is across a slow link. You
> can just retarget the console to the local DC - the policy objects will be
> synchronized anyways.
>
> --
> Dmitry Korolyov [d__k@removethispart.mail.ru]
> MVP: Windows Server - Active Directory
>
>
> "Alex" <nospam@spam.spam> wrote in message
> news:#5KEeTsJEHA.2456@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> I'm playing around with group policy's but having problems because of the
> speed of the link between my office and the master server where the
policy's
> are held. We have one domain located between two sites (128k). The first
> site has the 'PDC' in it but I'm located in the second site. I have
created
> an OU which contains all my local users to this site and applied a new
group
> policy to it.
>
> Like I say, it's incredibly slow to make any changes to the policy that's
> assigned to my local OU so I wondered if it's possible to change the site
> that this policy is lcoated at so it will load faster.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
>

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