Re: Group Policy, Control Panel, and Network Places

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On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:04:01 -0700, ladbadman
<ladbadman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



"Steve Foster [SBS MVP]" wrote:

ladbadman wrote:



"Steve Foster [SBS MVP]" wrote:

ladbadman wrote:

I have been experimenting with group policy to hide my network places and
the
control panel from authenticated users. I have two client computers on
my
local domain, both running Windows 2000 Pro. These are virtual machines,
running on MS Virtual Server. The group policy never did affect the two
users on the domain, when they logged onto either of the two client
machines.

I decided to undo the two group policy changes mentioned above; however,
when I logged onto my server as the administrator, the control panel and
network places are hidden from me. I have deleted the group policy
changes
that I made, deleted the associated links, etc. I have rebooted the
server
and both client machines. I have used the gpupdate command from the
command
line.

Nothing works! Can anyone help?

You created a GPO that said "make Control Panel go away" and applied it.
Taking the policy away doesn't reverse the instructions - you need to
create a new GPO that says "make Control Panel appear" (or "show/hide
Control Panel as you see fit") and once that's been applied, then you
can choose to have no policy at all.

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Steve Foster [SBS MVP]
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My choices in the group policy editor are: not configured, enabled, or
disabled. I have changed back to "not configured". Otherwise, I do not
understand how to apply your instructions. In other words, the group
policy
says, "Hide control panel." I can apply the three choices above to this
GP.
There is no GP that says, Show control panel."

I was speaking metaphorically.

If your policy choices are Enabled, Disabled or Not Configured, then this
is what they do:

Enabled: turns feature on
Disabled: turns feature off
Not Configured: leave feature in its current state / do nothing to the
feature status

So to undo an Enabled setting, you need to apply a Disabled setting, and
vice versa - not "Not Configured".

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Steve Foster [SBS MVP]
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MVPs do not work for Microsoft. Please reply only to the newsgroups.


After an extended period of time and for some unknown reason, both the
Control Panel and My Network Places reappeared. I was experimenting with
Roaming Profiles at the time, which seems unrelated, sort of.
It may have appeared faster if you had done gpupdate /force and a
reboot and login two more times.
.

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