Re: Big problem with Vista clients

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On Mar 12, 6:53 pm, "SuperGumby [SBS MVP]" <n...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
'gpupdate' on the client may also help. If it works you know you have not
interfered with policy to the point of interfering with GP processing, if it
fails the error message generated will indicate where to look for the
problem.

Mike, gawd you get yourself into trouble. The term 'inveterate fiddler'
comes to mind. It is interesting to watch as you perform these operations,
even if it just in order to 'keep us on our toes'. I do however wish you
would learn to play on some other network than your primary 'production'
system.

all meant to be taken with a :-)

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I gotta agree with you that I can sure "step in it". My intentions
are the best, but ... things happen. Maybe my "role" in this
newsgroup is to be the one everyone points to and says "don't do what
this guy did!"

Got to thinking on the drive home that it may have been my fault after
all (whodathunkit?). Yesterday I was poking around in my PC's Local
Security Policy to see what was in there. Now, I installed RSAT on my
machine so I could administer the domain from my client. Back to the
story -- I notice that Local Security Policy is listed twice. I
didn't think any more of it than it must have been a glitch. But,
maybe it was showing the Server's LCP and then My LCP. If so then I
changed the wrong one and somehow it propagated. I went into the
Firewall section of LCP and enabled just about all the settings. My
thought process was that it would AUGMENT and not REPLACE the domain
GP's; I felt that my PC needed an extra layer of defense since I do so
much admin work from it.

I'll do some checking and report back. It's gotta be a Vista GP since
XP clients are not affected. I doubt it means anything, but I ran the
SBS BPA, Exchange BPA, ISA BPA and MBSA and they all came up "clean".

Mike
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