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

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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 08:38:56 +0100

Thanks that worked fine once I'd figured out after the change I needed to go
back into AD Users to edit my OU's policy :)

"Darren Mar-Elia" <fermentedgrape@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:O1l5ZqvJEHA.2660@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> 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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