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   What's quicker, individual GPOs? I am at an establishment where we currently have 120 policies covering installs of software through to user restrictions. We have 6 types of users (for instance) and lockdowns and message popups. According to the user type then install, restriction and popup applys. Simple questions: If you look at startup times for an individual workstation against the type of user would it be quicker to ... 2 20.06.2007 10:57:09 Windows XP SP2 Power Scheme Is there a group policy template to control the windows XP SP2 power scheme from Small Business Server 2003 group policy? ... 2 20.06.2007 10:06:28 Setting the desktop wallpaper Hi, I have a policy that sets the XP desktops/laptops wallpaper to a company image stored on c: of every machine. When a user logs on, the image is not displayed fully, maybe 1 inch along the top of the screen in a thin horizintal strip. The policy sets the image as stretched which whould fill the screen, but does not on it's own. However, if you hit f5 to refresh you get the full imag... 1 20.06.2007 08:55:24 GP to allow access to only one folder on a shared drive Hi, I'm trying to get a very restrictive Group Policy setup on Windows 2003 STD SP2. I need users to have access to only a single folder within the E:\ drive. The folder will contain documents which are run through MS Word. I've been able to successfully lock down the users to the E:\ drive itself. They can still use the back/Up button to gain access to other folders on that same driv... 2 20.06.2007 06:15:16 No Group Policy over VPN connection I have a site connecting back to the main office over a DSL connection with a VPN tunnel. Users can log on, but group policy is not applying nor do I see any of my AD Network Printers. Running the gpresult command I get, "INFO: The user 'domain\user' does not have RSOP data." If I run the gpupdate /force command, it says, "User Policy Refresh has completed. Computer Policy Refresh has... 4 20.06.2007 05:49:59 Custom ADM Hi Where can I find custom adm's? for Drives, custom settins? Than'x Shay ... 2 19.06.2007 19:00:28 Accidentally denied read permissions on a policy Hi all, I was changing the delegation of a group policy in advanced mode and I wanted to give a certain group a deny read and apply permission. Well turns out I accidentally denied the authenticated users group to read and apply this GPO. Now, when I look in group policy management the policy's name isn't displayed anymore and says "inaccessible" and has a stopsign added to the icon.... 1 19.06.2007 14:38:50 cross domain group policy question I have a parent domain, lu.edu, and a child domain, ac.lu.edu My user accounts live in the parent (lu.edu) - I want my users to be able to use their normal name/password to access a computer lab, where the client computers are members of the ac.lu.edu domain. Right now I have an OU in ac.lu.edu and a GPO applied to it. I am using loopback processing, since I want to restrict the deskt... 11 19.06.2007 05:38:42 WMI Filter not working Hello, i've created a WMI Filter (Namespace: root\CIMv2, Query: Select * from Win32_ComputerSystem where Name = 'COMPUTERNAME') But it don't work. Please help me. Best regards, Michael Rieger ... 5 18.06.2007 23:19:57 Group Policy to set Client Firewall settings Hi All, I need to open up quite a few ports on all our client workstations to allow access from a single defined (internal) IP address (a server). Obviously I can do that using GP. However, the number of ports I need to add is quite large, and I am wondering if there is anyway to store those settings in some kind of structured data file (CSV for example), and then 'import' that in... 10 18.06.2007 11:25:40 GPO settings disappearing Hi. We are having a problem with some of our users losing some of their settings which we control via a GPO. We set varioous options in IE7 using the GPO (eg proxy server, excluded address, trusted sites etc.). When they logon the settings are applied correctly but at random points during the day the settings for some of them (not the same ones every time) simply disappear!! GUPDATE /... 4 18.06.2007 09:52:36 Power Management GPO? Hi All, I'm trying to figure out how to set the power settings of the computers in my organization. They are almost all Windows XP Pros, a couple Windows 2000 Pro but I'm not going to worry about them right now. I know that Microsoft set this up so that a standard User does not have rights to change the power settings and so far I have not been able to find a way to set them globall... 27 15.06.2007 17:59:03 Group Policy not pushing to wireless clients GPO's are not being pushed to clients that are connecting via wireless. Basically, they are using the intel connect software and a pre-logon connection and authenticating like they are connecting over the wire. Any ideas? Just to make sure everyone understands, I am not trying to push a wireless config via GPO.... 3 15.06.2007 17:38:44 Any GP templates for .Net framework 1.1 and 2.0 We have some developers that are now starting to use .Net 2005. I don't like people saving their work locally because it does not get backed up so I do all I can to keep them saving on the network. The problem is that the .NET projects and exe's they compile give security errors when run from the network drive, but they run fine from the local drive, especially when they have to do som... 4 15.06.2007 14:48:32 default domain Policy reset My previous admins customize the default domain policy which is not according to best practices. How can I reset it from the default configs? of the default domain policy and create a new one so I can always backout? ... 3 15.06.2007 13:44:37 Disk Quota Hi all, is there a way to assign Disk Quota on a shared disk of a server to groups with Group Policy? TIA Arnold ... 3 15.06.2007 08:53:43 Loss of Admin Rights Hi, I'm a domain adminstrator in a Windows 2003 Active Directory environment. We have 2 OU's based around field based devices. Over the past few days we have noticed a degradation in being able to access the devices using our domain admin accounts (even though the domain admin group is a member of the local-admin group of the machine), basically we can logon to the machines but we can... 2 15.06.2007 05:26:34 Power User IIS Admin Policy I have a domain account that is included in a Server 2003 machine 'Power Users' group. I would like this account/group to have management rights to IIS on this particular server. Is there a way with group policy to accomplish this at the domain or machine level? Any help here would be much appreciated. Thanks. -- Rick... 4 15.06.2007 04:00:58 Modifying existing Office 2000 GPO We have a full install of Office 2000 deployed via a GPO. We are upgrading some of our users to Outlook 2003. I created a transform file for a custom install of outlook 03 and it upgrades from outlook 2000 perfectly. The problem is that this works only with users that have office 2000 installed already. If I setup a new computer without office on it, when the GPO's deploy, outlook 03 ins... 7 14.06.2007 20:53:05 Preventing users from installing software on PCs within the domain I what to Preventing users from installing software on PCs within the domain (local computers). The all users have administrator but not local administrators, for example: User Name: Domain: Group: pepe "my domain name" administrators I want only domain admins or local administrator allow to install software. something like that.... 2 14.06.2007 20:01:33 security event size vs time If I change the security template st both a larger than default maximum size and a maximum number of days is defined before the security event log is rolled, which takes precedence? is it and OR operation or and AND operation? Thanks ... 2 14.06.2007 18:17:57 Export POL File Hi! I have just created a custom adm Policy Template. After I have added this template and created a policy i nned to export the policy into a SINGLE policy file. As far as i understand the GP Editor automatically creates two pol files (one at %systemroot%\system32\GroupPolicy\Machine\registry.pol an the other at Settings\All Users\ntuser.pol to the other system.) But as I already mention... 2 14.06.2007 15:38:03 problem with restarts and updates Hi I have a problem since I installed WSus 3. The computers in my domain, they all install the updates but the warning to the users concerning a restart , its only seen in event viewer. On sreen, the window warning the restart, doesen't appear. I checked GPO and is in the same state as it was for Wus 2 and at that time it worked well. Now all 800 pcs restart witnhout warning. Any ideias f... 1 14.06.2007 13:29:53 Gp Software Uninstall Issue The following is from the Group Policy Results Summary Tab in the GPMC.MMC. I can't seem to get this pending reqeust to leave. I have restarted but the request remains. Any ideas? Component Name Status Last Process Time Group Policy Infrastructure Success 6/12/2007 10:34:12 AM EFS recovery Success (no data) 6/12/2007 9:30:27 AM Registry Success 6/12/2007 10:31:... 8 14.06.2007 06:30:46 Applying GPO against a global group Our high school is doing something different next year. Instead of booking out four of our computer labs to any teacher, each department (math, science, English, and social studies) is going to be responsible for their own lab. Creating GPOs to run against computer accounts that way won't be a problem. But the students are all in one OU. So we'd like to be able to apply a specific GP... 2 14.06.2007 05:21:30 20 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20