Re: Applying XP group policy setting in Windows 2000 Active Direct

Glad to here you got it to work. That is a good idea to create a new GPO if
you are having problems just to see what happens. I have seen the same thing
myself on occasion and chalk it up to gremlins. --- Steve


"Tom" <Tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:D86974B3-0BCE-476B-B0A0-40C4A9028508@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi Steven and Mark,
> Thanks for all your advice. I got it to work in the end. I'm not sure what
> was wrong but when I deleted my original group policy and created a new
> one
> with the exact same settings and permissions it worked fine. I couldn't
> find
> anything different about either policy so I'll have to put it down to the
> quirks of computing!
> Tom
>
> "Steven L Umbach" wrote:
>
>> It should work [it does for my W2K domain and XP pro computers].
>> Depending
>> on if you are using computer or user configuration for SRP make sure that
>> the computers or users you want to apply SRP to are within the scope of
>> management of the Group Policy where you implemented it. In other words
>> if
>> you used user configuration with a Group Policy linked to an OU make sure
>> that the user is in that OU structure.
>>
>> To troubleshoot Group Policy I would start with the netdiag support tool
>> to
>> make sure that domain membership, dns, secure channel, and networking are
>> all working well and then use the gpresult support tool to see what Group
>> Policies are applied to the user/computer, that the user/computer shows
>> in
>> the container you expect, and the last time the Group Policy was applied.
>> The /z switch will show very detailed info but you may want to pipe to a
>> text file to read. Also keep in mind that time lag for propagation of
>> Group
>> Policy which can take up to two hours unless you manually refresh with
>> secedit/gpupdate or logon/logoff or reboot. --- Steve
>>
>>
>>
>> "Tom" <Tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:DD849BD4-2B32-4415-A220-6FB63DB12829@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Hi Mark,
>> > It turns out that I spoke too soon. I can administer the GPOs for my
>> > domain
>> > from GPMC on an XP machine but when a user logs into an XP client
>> > machine
>> > only the settings that are common to XP and Windows 2000 are enabled.
>> > It
>> > seems I still cannot enable software restriction policies for xp
>> > machines
>> > on
>> > my domain. I cannot find anything in the Knowledgebase about this.
>> > Can some one give me any ideas?
>> > Thanks in advance,
>> > Tom
>> >
>> > "Mark Heitbrink [MVP]" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Tom schrieb:
>> >> > Thank you Mark,
>> >> > Alles ist jetzt in ordnung!
>> >>
>> >> :-)
>> >>
>> >> Mark
>> >> --
>> >> Mark Heitbrink - MVP Windows Server
>> >> Homepage: www.gruppenrichtlinien.de
>> >> W2K FAQ : http://w2k-faq.ebend.de
>> >> PM: Vorname@Homepage, Versende-Adresse wird nicht abgerufen.
>> >>
>>
>>
>>


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