Re: GroupPolicyMinTransferRate and Current User

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Howdy Corin!

Toothman wrote:
To elaborate further; I can apply GPs in the local domain but the
remote site is not getting GPs applied unless I manually add the
"GroupPolicyMinTransferRate" key to the the registry. Our routers are
blocking the second icmp request when authenticating with the domain
controller so the machine is aborting GP processing. I also thought of
the PingBufferSize solution but our routers are set to only allow
packets under 108 bytes where the minimum size for PingBufferSize is
500 bytes. I was hoping someone had got around this issue here in
someway where they had the situation of more than one user at the
remote site and needed to add this registry key to various user
profiles.

You're sure about that? Even if it is a slow link, regkeys and policies from UserConf/Adm Templ/... and CompConf/Adm Templ/... will always be processed, see:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/227369/en-us
Maybe something else is broken that might prevent the users and machines from getting the policies. Have you checked the eventlogs?

I guess I could also post in another group just trying to find a way
for a user to modify registry entries in
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies" as this the real cause of my
problems; it appears that only a user who is logged in and has admin
rights can modify these keys?

No. Logon scripts run in the context of the user. If your users aren't local admins (what's a good policy by the way) they will not be able to access this regkey to alter it. And so is the logon script.

You could try to write yourself a custom ADM template and change the regkey - but if the policies won't get applied, chances are that custom adm templates won't either...

cheers,

Florian
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Nachwuschsadmin aus dem Süddeutschen/Germany.
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