Re: Group Policy Error Help

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From: Arek Iskra [MVP] (NoSpam_arek_at_arekiskra.com)
Date: 03/22/05 

Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:12:53 +0800

You might want to do a metadata cleanup using ntdsutil to get rid of
references to old DC. 

-- 
Arek Iskra
MVP for Windows Server - Software Distribution
"Jeff Apczynski" <jeffa@rhythm.com> wrote in message 
news:ONQPjPoLFHA.3512@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
> I'm getting EventID 1058  Source Userenv errors.  This is happening on my 
> PDC.  Below is brief history of the conditions that brought on this 
> condition...
>
> My predecessor configured a w2k3 domain named boxx (double x).  After he 
> was sure that the configurations were complete he renamed the domain to 
> box (Single x) and ensured that all computers and users were now running 
> under the box domain.  I have verified that all users and computers are 
> members of the box domain.  However, I'm getting a mess of these errors on 
> my server
>
> Event Type: Error
> Event Source: Userenv
> Event Category: None
> Event ID: 1058
> Date: 3/21/2005
> Time: 5:53:48 PM
> User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
> Computer: PANDORA
> Description:
> Windows cannot access the file gpt.ini for GPO 
> cn={6AC1786C-016F-11D2-945F-00C04fB984F9},cn=policies,cn=system,DC=box,DC=rhythm,DC=com. 
> The file must be present at the location 
> <\\boxx.rhythm.com\sysvol\boxx.rhythm.com\Policies\{6AC1786C-016F-11D2-945F-00C04fB984F9}\gpt.ini>. 
> (The network path was not found. ). Group Policy processing aborted.
>
>
> It seems that somewhere group policies are still addressing the old boxx 
> domain.  I did locate that GPO key folder in 
> \\pandora.box.rhythm.com\SYSVOL\Policies.  Is there anything I can do to 
> replace the \\boxx.rhythm.com\sysvol\...  to 
> \\pandora.box.rhythm.com\sysvol...?
>
> Thanks
>
> -jeff-

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