Re: Group Policy Orphaned

From: Mark Renoden [MSFT] (markreno_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/07/04


Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 07:32:08 +1000

Hi Darren

Unfortunately, Windows NT 4 style policies are permanent registry changes
and unless you know exactly what they were, there's no way that I know of to
automatically undo them. You might have to consider client machine rebuilds
or seeking out the ones that are causing the most trouble and manually
correcting them.

Kind regards

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Mark Renoden [MSFT]
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"Darren" <darrenwoodbrey@hpfairfield.com> wrote in message 
news:0fb701c4acb3$c94c97e0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>I have a few workstations that have been upgraded from
> win 98 to win2000 to winxp.  I used to use policies on
> windows NT 4, now I am using Group Policy for server
> 2003.  I did not upgrade the servers, I did a fresh
> install.  The problem is there are some settings still in
> effect from NT Policies (i.e. No Network Neighborhood on
> desktop, and many others.  I do not know exaclty which
> ones are still in effect.)
>
> Is there a way to reset all of these settings on the
> workstations so that I can start from scratch with Group
> Policy?  Thanks! 


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