RE: Group Policy Problems



Hi Spencer,

Thank you for posting in SBS newsgroup.

Based on your description, I understand the issue to be: A user caused her
machine to crash. After restoring now the client can not apply many group
policies. If I have misunderstood your issue, please let me know.

As I know, the issue may be caused by some information corruption of the
client. Currently, please try to disjoin domain and rejoin domain to see
how thing goes:

1. In client computer, right-click My Computer and then select Properties.
2. In Computer Name tab, click Change and the change the computer from
Domain to Workgroup.
3. Reboot the machine.
4. Log on as a local administrator account
5. In client computer, open IE and run http://servername/connectcomputer
6. Follow the wizard to finish.

Also please check if you have configured SBS and client computer correctly:

For 2 NICs on SBS:

On SBS server:

External NIC:
IP: assigned by your ISP or your hardware router
Gateway: your ISP or your Hardware router IP
DNS: SBS INTERNAL NIC IP as the only entry

Internal NIC:
IP: Fixed IP
Gateway: None
DNS: SBS INTERNAL NIC IP as the only entry

In the DNS console (dnsmgmt.msc), right click your ServerName and click
properties. In the Forwarders tab, your ISP DNS server IP should be
inputted there.

On workstation inside your SBS local subnet

IP: Assigned by DHCP on SBS
Gateway: SBS internal NIC IP
DNS: SBS INTERNAL NIC IP as the only entry

If the issue still occurs, you may need to post this question in the
Microsoft.Public.WindowsXP newsgroup. The reason why we recommend posting
appropriately is you will get the most qualified pool of respondents, and
other partners who read the newsgroups regularly can either share their
knowledge or learn from your interaction with us.

I appreciate your time and look forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,

Crina Li (MSFT)

Microsoft CSS Online Newsgroup Support

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| Hi
|
| Have a small SBS2003 network with 8 machines - all running ok.
|
| Recently, one user caused her machine to crash (by switching on and off a
| few times without waiting for windows to boot in) and this resulted in
| machine refusing to boot - error - Windows XP could not start because the
| following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM.
|
| After some research on the net, I resolved by using Recovery Console and
| typing
|
| copy c:\windows\repair\system
|
| Machine booted ok - unable to follow rest of instructions to use system
| restore to pick an earlier restore point as none existed in system
restore.
|
| Machine now joins domain ok - can share drives etc without problem
(folder
| redirection and AV software runs fine) but most group policy's set on
server
| are not being picked up - gpresult shows most GPO's fail with Filtering:
| Denied (Security) and it appears that both computer and user are not part
of
| all the security groups other machines / users are.
|
| What is the simplest way to fix this?? Should I attempt to manually
correct
| (in which case will need some guidance as no idea where to start here) or
| could I 'unjoin' the computer, remove computer and user from SBS domain,
then
| recreate / rejoin machine and user??
|
| Any advice gratefully received.
|
| Thanks
|

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