Re: Overwritten ADM files - recovery?

Hi Mark, thanks for responding, and for preventing me going down very bad
roads :)

Whilst many policies and settings are being applied, some are not, for
example, proxy (on Desktop and Thinclient OU's), ....my gut-feeling is
Computer settings are being applied, User settings are not.

I've tried loopback in various combinations (which originally worked), but
it takes me back to the status described in the below (12 threads
down..."GPO's overriding themselves?"), which explains where I started out
from... specifically, a working environment until I installed GPMC on my
Vista box and explored GPOs with it.

I am now _only_ accessing from DC, but still I cannot get the policies to
apply consistently / as before.

When you say "just import them", do you mean from a "clean" source
(Microsoft download)?
I've been at this for 72 hours now (with sleep though), and am starting to
feel I can't see the forest for the trees (no pun) so do feel free to hold my
hand and help me through like a noob :)

Dave

"Mark Heitbrink [MVP]" wrote:

Hi,

Dave Swales schrieb:
GPO's were accessed from a workstation and policies are now unreliable.
Can I restore / wind-back-the-clock to the previous ADMs somehow?

Just import them and replace the ones you like.
ADMs are not keeping ANY setting. They just give you the possibility
to EDIT the setting, the setting itself is written to \user\registry.pol
or \machine\registry.pol

The ADM is just a TEMPLATE (thats why it is called like that ...)
to modify, but not the setting itself.

Can I restore from a System State backup?

.... only the complete Systemstate. You do not want that!

Can I delete the recently dated folders in the Sysvol\Policies and it "all
be better"?

No. Because then you are deleting the referenced GUID in AD.

Perhaps it would be easier to tell us, what your problem exactly is?

You should work with the GPMC and backup/restore the GPOs recently.

Mark
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Mark Heitbrink - MVP Windows Server - Group Policy

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