Threads Replies Last Post 20 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20   Folder Redirection I setup a group policy for folder redirection and selected the "Basic" option. I would like to change the GPO to the ADvanced option and place redirected folders based on security groups. If some users already ahve their folders redirected with the policy as "basic" will changing to advanced cause problems? Anyone done this before? Thanks, Jeff ... 2 13.07.2007 21:24:43 Set default email program Is there a way to set the default email program and configure a profile in Outlook with Group Policy? John ... 1 13.07.2007 23:39:50 RDP Group Policies issue Hello, I am using RDP to connect to a Windows XP sp2 machine. I have configured group policies on the remote machine to limit RDP session times. The remote machien is standalone - not member of a domain. I am using local GPO. It does not seem to work. Please help ... 1 13.07.2007 23:32:46 Default Domain Policy being applied to all domain computers One of my clients has a situation where the default domain policy is being applied to all computers within the domain. We can tell this by using gpresult. Yet, in AD Users and Computers, the Default Domain Policy is only linked to the domain controllers OU, and only the domain controllers are in that OU. If their current network admin logs in to a workstation with domain admin rights,... 6 13.07.2007 23:08:00 trouble finding GPO causing Office 2003 restriction Hello all. I've got a GPO that's been around since before me that locks some semi-public computers down pretty good. The problem I have is that all programs (firefox, notepad, adobe acrobat, etc.) seem to be able to the desktop except Office programs (Word, Excel, PP, etc.). Whenever I try, I get the error "The operation was canceled due to restrictions....blah blah blah". I get this ... 1 13.07.2007 22:46:00 Folder Security sporadically working I'm trying to lock down the desktop folder of all users on machines by OU. Because of the complexity of our organization, desktop folder redirection, mandatory profiles and roaming profiles are not an option so I went with a File Security GPO via Active Directory for simplicity. I'm trying to set the permissions for domain users and not local users. The GPO sets file rights on the followin... 2 13.07.2007 22:42:40 How to Add 'MyFile.exe' to the 'Run only allowed Windows applications', using a Script / Registry / WMI / API or whatever ? Hello, I have defined 2 groups policy in Windows Server 2003 SP2, and i would like to add ''MyFile.exe' to the 'Run only allowed Windows applications', using a Script / Registry / WMI / API or whatever ? How can i do that ? Thanks. ... 6 13.07.2007 22:07:16 Planning A Group Policy Deployment I'd like to start a thread concerning the high level planning for Group Policy deployment. In my particular situation I have been given the responsibility for deploying Group Policy (and AD) at a high school. While there is a blizzard of information about GP, it is all referential - what does this do, what does it effect, etc. I'm looking for a level 200 or 300 discussion about the pr... 11 13.07.2007 21:36:02 Remove Folder Redirection Group Policy First time creating user specific group policy. I create a policy to redirect users My Documents to a Root Path on a file server. The following links shows the steps I went about creating this policy: http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2004/08/24/folder_redir... Unfortunately, it was decided we rather just have a logon policy instead to map users to a mapped drive, which ca... 1 13.07.2007 21:22:05 Folder Redirection First time creating user specific group policy. I create a policy to redirect users My Documents to a Root Path on a file server. The following links shows the steps I went about creating this policy: http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2004/08/24/folder_redirect.html Unfortunately, it was decided we rather just have a logon policy instead to map users to a mapped drive, whi... 1 13.07.2007 21:17:57 Event ID 1054 I’ve been chasing an issue with a Windows 2003 based domain controller. After running DCPROMO, I see a very large quantity of Event ID 1054, with the SYSTEM as the user. These happen every 5 minutes or so, yet when the twice daily Group Policy update occurs the event log shows that Group Policy was applied successfully. The error text reads "Windows cannot obtain the domain contro... 3 13.07.2007 20:42:01 Remove Run from start menu doesn't work from GPO Hi, I try to make a GPO for removing run from start menu but it doesn't work. I do the rsop.msc to see GPO result and the setting is set to enabled. This is the only GPO on this OU and the Inheritance it's enable. thanks, J-F... 2 13.07.2007 17:52:42 office compatability update install through group policy We have been trying to apply the office compatability update through group policy so we can easily push it out to all our computers, but when we resart one of the machines it begins to look for the update and quickly stopps and in event viewer we get the error "The assignment of application Compatibility Pack for the 2007 Office system from policy Default failed. The error was : The sy... 4 13.07.2007 15:16:01 Issue With Software Deployment Via GPO Hello, I have a issue with GPO Software Deployment at the moment (actually I've had this for a year but haven't needed to create any new software deployments in a while); Whenever i create a new Group Policy for deployment and add a package (MSI), an event is recorded in the event log that reads; Source: Software Installation Event ID: 119 "Software Installation encountered an unexp... 3 13.07.2007 11:29:57 Windows Time Service: What if the PDC-role is moved? Hi! I'read that normally the first DC in the domain which holds the PDC-role is also the authoritive time server. So this one should catch the time from the internet and serve it to the clients in the domain. What is, if the PDC role is moved from the first DC in the domain to another DC? Will the first server be still the time server or will the new server be the one? Thanks for ... 5 13.07.2007 08:36:09 Problem configuring proxy settings in IE7 via group policies Hi everyone, Apologies for the cross posting, I'm not entirely sure if this is a IE7 issue or a group policy issue. I had a group policy that forces a few IE settings for all of our users. This policy works fine for users on IE6, however for those on IE7 all of the settings apply except the proxy settings. This is most frustrating as we are trying to lockdown outgoing web access to a... 8 13.07.2007 07:47:19 push printer works then doesn't I have found that using the 2003R2 method to push printers to clients was working ok from one GP, so I tried to add it to another and could not figure out what may be different. Finally i thought maybe i had used the gp management tool from my local pc origionally instead of from the server, so I removed it and then re-added using the local editor the suddenly it started working. Eit... 5 13.07.2007 05:17:15 Software Restriction Policies and Symantec Antivirus Hello, I recently implemented SRPs in my Windows network, thoroughly testing many things before deployment. So, after deploying SRPs everything works fine: allowed programs start, disallowed programs don't. However, I have problem with Symantec AntiVirus 10.x clients - they appear like their Auto Protect is disabled (SAV yellow shield icon is in red circle), but SAV client software i... 4 13.07.2007 04:53:23 Deploying software Hi All I don't know if this is normal but anytime I create a new distribution of software using an MSI to an OU and asign it to a computer in that OU I find I have to restart the computer twice before the software is deployed is this normal? Wayne ... 5 13.07.2007 00:03:26 Group policy results wizard - Access denied While logged on as a domain admin, we are getting Access Denied when trying to run the Group Policy Results Wizard on our WinXP SP2 systems. I can remotely manage the systems, so I think WMI is working. Also, firewalls are disabled. Not sure when this stopped working, used to work fine. Could it be a policy setting, such as Access this computer from the network or Remotely accessible ... 8 13.07.2007 00:02:51 Running a script when locking a station? Hi, Is there a possibility ( I hope there is:) ) to run a script when locking a station? If so, can sombody tell me what measures should be taken to obtain such effect? John ... 1 12.07.2007 21:25:18 How can I save files in USERNAME\LOCAL SETTINGS\ when user logs of Hi We have an application which creates files in USERNAME\LOCAL SETTINGS\APPLICATION DATA to store informations about the printer the user use. We have roaming profiles in our environment. When the user logs off, the files in the directory mentioned are not replicated to the profile path, so when the user logs in again, he has to define the printer settings again. We have asked th... 2 12.07.2007 13:46:28 Can't copy .exe to Startup Scripts Folder on DC I am trying to use GP to deploy printers. Per the MS article for such, I need to run pushprinterconnections.exe as a startup script. I am at the DC running 2003 R2, SP2 and when I try to copy that file to the Scripts\Startup folder for any OU, I get access denied errors even though the domain admin is performing the action. I checked the permissions and of course domain admins have f... 11 12.07.2007 12:44:23 Check GPO application deployment result This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0006_01C7C49D.F7DB1C30 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi all, First of all, I am new to this. What I had tried was to do was to deploy MS Office Compatibility Pack = 2007 to a test W2k machine from SBS 2000. The Pack was installed onto = the test machine. ... 6 12.07.2007 07:26:41 NTP GPO entries tattooed? Hi, I need to clear out a set of NTP settings computerconfig /windows setttings/admin templates/system/windows time services (time providers) in a particular GPO, does anyone know if these settings will be tattooed, and if so how do I get rid of them? Thanks in advance! Matt ... 2 12.07.2007 06:02:43 20 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20