Re: Internet Explorer Maintenance Windows XP SP2

From: Bashar Arar (bashar_at_adez.ae)
Date: 10/18/04 

Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 11:14:55 +0400

I'm facing the same problem and it only happens when Application Data folder
is redirected.

"Mark Renoden [MSFT]" <markreno@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:OHqDeomqEHA.324@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Hi Chris
>
> If you can confirm the symptoms as only occurring when application data is
> redirected and the behaviour is reproducable, it's probably worth logging
> a support incident to have it looked at. If these aren't the specific
> symptoms, you'll want to examine the logging I mentioned earlier.
>
> Kind regards
>
> --
> Mark Renoden [MSFT]
> Windows Platform Support Team
> Email: markreno@online.microsoft.com
>
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> "Christopher Walker" <someone@microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:%23Q6alcbqEHA.3876@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> Well I thought I'd cracked it and then......
>>
>> I created some barnd new AD Group Policy's blocked inheritance and built
>> a mcahine with Windows xp sp2 (slipstreamed) using ris and guess what it
>> worked and it still works three days later! this was a laptop one of
>> twenty we have to build for staff .... the next machine i built worked
>> then i restarted it and you guest it back to normal no ie proxy or
>> homepage settings ... now these two machines had exactly the same build
>> from the same image and have been only logged on to as my self and were
>> built with ris directly into the same AD unit. ....
>>
>> However after this point i found some AD replication errors on my
>> servers... i have since cured these and I am now going to rebuild the
>> laptop using RIS auto and see what happens.
>>
>> Can only be an SP2 problem I think, will be a pain though with 1000
>> students wandering round 350 computers .... well at least its more secure
>> they cant even get access to the internet, cheers microsoft!!!!
>>
>> Chris Walker
>>
>>
>> "Julian Gilbert" <julian@NOSPAMPLEASEgilbert-1.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in
>> message news:cjpgpt$q9i$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk...
>>>I have experienced similar problems with Internet Explorer Maintenance on
>>> our organisation's Windows Server 2003 domain with Windows XP Service
>>> Pack 2
>>> clients. I am trying to apply proxy server and homepage settings to IE
>>> for
>>> all users.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> In our case, the settings are applied correctly for the majority of our
>>> users, but not for users from a particular OU. After extensive testing,
>>> I
>>> discovered that Internet Explorer Maintenance fails when using
>>> Application
>>> Data redirection. It seems that the mechanism for applying branding to
>>> IE
>>> fails because the branding information is never copied to the redirected
>>> application data location.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Is this a known bug? Is anybody in a situation where your Internet
>>> Explorer
>>> Maintenance works and you are using Application Data redirection?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you for any information.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Julian Gilbert
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Christopher Walker" <someone@microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>> news:%23aquyJEoEHA.1460@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> I'll have a look at it but I dont think that this is the key. The only
>>> user
>>>> who gets the settings is the Administrative account .... normal users
>>> (who's
>>>> policy works fine with sp1) dont get it anmd neither does our support
>>> users
>>>> ..... The policy was created prior to logon.i'll take a look at the
>>>> brndlog.txt as mentioned and see what I get!
>>>>
>>>> Chris
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Mark Renoden [MSFT]" <markreno@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:%23QPxHKDoEHA.3392@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>>>> > Hi Chris
>>>> >
>>>> > Internet Explorer Maintenance policy only applies by default when
>>>> > it's
>>> new
>>>> > or it changes.
>>>> >
>>>> > You might want to take a look at:
>>>> >
>>>> > 306915 Internet Explorer Maintenance Group Policies Do Not Apply
>>>> > During
>>>> > http://support.microsoft.com/?id=306915
>>>> >
>>>> > If this isn't helpful, try harvesting the brndlog.txt file from
>>>> > \Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer under the user profile
>>>> > that's having the problem. It might give you a clue as to why it's
>>>> > not
>>>> > applying.
>>>> >
>>>> > Kind regards
>>>> > --
>>>> > Mark Renoden [MSFT]
>>>> > Windows Platform Support Team
>>>> > Email: markreno@online.microsoft.com
>>>> >
>>>> > Please note you'll need to strip ".online" from my email address to
>>> email
>>>> > me; I'll post a response back to the group.
>>>> >
>>>> > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
>>>> > rights.
>>>> >
>>>> > "Christopher Walker" <someone@microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>>> > news:K0%3d.46918$U04.14438@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>>>> >> Hi,
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I have a strange problem with Windows XP SP2 and a group policy
>>>> >> which
>>>> >> applies our IE settings through the Interent Explorer Maintenance
>>>> >> part
>>> of
>>>> >> the policy.
>>>> >> Basically it dosnt work for regualr users ..... as a rule we do not
>>>> >> use
>>>> >> the administrator account as we have created support accounts with a
>>>> >> "more secure" set of restrictions these accounts do have local admin
>>>> >> privs on our workstations.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> We experience the following symptoms when trying to access the
>>>> >> internet
>>>> >> through ie 6.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Proxy/homepage settings are not entered (logged on as our support
>>>> >> accounts) (these are in a different ou with a different policy)
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Proxy/homepage settings work (logged on as our Administrator
>>>> >> account)
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I though that it was something screwy with the GPO (even though it
>>> works
>>>> >> fine with sp1 and hotfixes!) so I moved the support accounts into
>>>> >> the
>>>> >> same AD unit as the admin account performed "gpupdate" and deleted
>>>> >> the
>>>> >> local profile of the user.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I still experience the same problems ..... must be a simple
>>>> >> solution?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Thanks
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Chris
>>>> >>
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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