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   adding a trusted site If you import a trusted site into your Domain Group policy from your local internet settings does the import process also capture other settings or just the trusted site that you added? All I want to do is add a trusted site. I don't want to change other group policy settings.... 2 12.07.2007 05:50:26 Policymaker and "could not connect to kernel driver" when using polmon.exe Hi Folks, We use Policymaker to create custom policies for our W2003 server. Its a great product and has recently been bought out by MS to include into W2008 server (beta right now). Question, when I run the utility (polmon.exe) to monitor what policies are running I get this error "Could not connect to kernel driver. Please ensure that the kernel driver is installed and running" I kn... 1 12.07.2007 02:43:33 Policymaker and future GPOs I realize that Server 2008 is in Beta. We use "Policymaker" heavily in our 2003 AD environment. Microsoft has since purchased the "Desktop Standards" company and "Policymaker". It is my understanding the "Policymaker" product will be wrapped into the GPO for "Server 2008". As we move toward "Server 2008": Should I begin reworking our use of Policymaker? OR will our existing use of... 7 12.07.2007 02:36:39 Offline files do not get disabled via Group Policy I have a win2k3 DC and a bunch of Vista clients. I'm trying to disable offline files via group policy by disabling Computer config -> Admin Templates -> Network -> Offline files -> Allow or disallow use of offline files features. The vista clients can still enable or disable offline files and by default offline files is enabled on any new PC. How can I fully disable offlin... 3 11.07.2007 14:26:00 GPO Error 1030 - Help Please! Hi All, I would appreciate some help on the following problem: Company is running Windows SBS 2003 SP1 as DC, DHCP, DNS etc. We like to control a lot of our security settings by using GPMC. Last week, I made a new policy to apply to all of the client computers and when i went to test it on the clients, I used gpupdate /force in command prompt and restarted the computer to fully update ... 9 11.07.2007 13:22:02 IE7 and GPO settings. I am using Windows 2003 server. I set defaults for Security settings, home page and added a few URL's to Favorites. They do not appear in IE7. I do not have any IE6 machines to test on. Does IE7 pick up these settings? ... 3 11.07.2007 09:17:00 no non-broadcasting networks flag We have upgraded our our domain controller to Windows 2003 server SP2 because SP2 supports Group Policy support for non-broadcasting networks and Wi-Fi Protected Access 2. We are using GP for all Wireless clients (Windows XP ) in our domain. Before SP2 we were using WPA TKIP with PEAP and we where looking forward to deploy WPA2. When creating a wireless GP after upgrade to SP2 there is n... 1 11.07.2007 07:40:41 GPO for slow network detection not reliable Have a customer whose clients are roaming between two locations which are connected over a VPN with a 5 to 10 MBit/s Link. LAN speed is 100MBit/s. The customer wants that the clients load and save the server roaming profile only when they are on the location with the home server, and using the local cached profile when working at the remote location. Have configured at computer- admin t... 5 11.07.2007 06:55:15 determine use of login script used in GP We are using GP to apply a login script to different OU's in the org. The problem I have now is that my login script (script.vbs) is sprinkled throughout a bunch of different OU's. Is there an easy way to determine which OU's and which GP's are having this script.vbs applied to them? I really don't want to have to click through every OU and check each GP within for the specific script. ... 2 11.07.2007 05:42:53 User Rights Assignment causes WMI failure I had to test this several times to be sure but it happened to me over and over again: On an XP Pro SP 2 client I verified that WMI was running fine. I could open wmimgmt.msc and it displayed as normal. I then configured a group policy with the following 2 User Rights Assignments: 'Impersonate a client after authentication' and 'Create Global Objects'. After configuring and applying... 4 11.07.2007 00:32:06 Prevent a user GPO override a Computer GPO My users get their IE proxy address set through a user GPO. When a user logs onto a certain group of machines I want no proxy address ticked in IE, so I have written a small script that removes the proxy settings and 'runs at user log on' that is set in the computer GPO of those machines. The trouble is the user seems to take precedence over (or runs after) the machine GPO so the proxy ad... 4 10.07.2007 15:25:31 Disable CD-Rom with .adm file in group policy Hi, I tried to import the adm. file used is the KB555324 (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555324) And I make the settings to disable the CD-Rom. But when I apply the Group Policy, It does'nt work (The CD-Rom still there...). I need your help guys!!!! Thanks,... 5 10.07.2007 14:24:02 Drive mapping I am using a logon script to map a couple of drives in our enviroment. Nothing fancy by any means, just a simple vbs file to connect the drives. The problem I am having is that the drives are remaining mapped on some systems. I have set the mappings to be non-persistant. I've also got a logoff script that will explicitly remove the mappings. I've even gone to the point where I have attempt... 1 10.07.2007 14:23:07 Problem with offline files/folder redirection Hello, I recently moved the offline files location for users from one server to another, server1 to server2. I've modified the group policy related to folder redirection accordingly, and the clients have seen the change. The problem is, they keep trying to sync on the old server. It doesn't mater if I uncheck "server1" from the sync preferences, it keeps returning. Is there some way eithe... 2 10.07.2007 14:04:50 GPO error Hi, I have created a GPO recently for testing. Suddenly today I am getting a Group Policy Error message "Failed to open the Group Policy Object. You may not have appropriate right." Below of the message it says Details The handle is invalid This happens when I tries to Edit the GPO. Any Idea will be appriciatiable. Thanks... 3 10.07.2007 07:26:03 policy for work station Hi all, I have my own stand alone system.I have administrator account and user account. In local policy I have set password complexity disabled.But the effective setting is enabled which is not editable. When I reset user account password with blank I receive error that this password is not match password complexity where there is no password complexity enabled. Can any body give repl... 2 10.07.2007 05:38:53 GP preventing Windows Installer Software installs All: *** I first want to mention that we are not running software restriction policies in our environment. *** When executing a setup file from a computer, I get the following error before the installation process even begins: The system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation. I receive this prompt logged in as a DOMAIN ADMIN on a Windows XP sp2 machine. I am a... 6 10.07.2007 05:23:21 Adm file import Hello, I have created an adm file to configure required registry settings for network security. I have used the GPMC to import the adm file into the GPO. I have applied the settings within the adm file. Reviewing the security audit on the box, I can clearly see a positive result. I see an error within the test servers event log however which leaves me scatching my head a bit. S... 2 10.07.2007 00:58:53 Userenv 1053 I have been getting userenv 1053 errors on all my client pc's. I am running Windows SBS 2003 server. Event Type: Error Event Source: Userenv Event Category: None Event ID: 1053 Date: 7/6/2007 Time: 10:53:30 AM User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Computer: HAVANA-BQ9WJ76F Description: Windows cannot determine the user or computer name. (Access is denied. ). Group Policy processing aborted... 5 09.07.2007 18:43:53 Install Font using GPO during start up Hi All, Just wondering, is there any way to install a font during startup using a GPO (e.g. a Startup Script or something)? Thanks ... 2 09.07.2007 06:05:51 Policy Hi I have win2003 sp1 and Wixp Pro sp2. I want to disable the Floppy, DVD drive, CD Drive and the all the USB ports. Is it possible? if yes how? Than'x Shay ... 2 09.07.2007 05:49:45 How to stop anyone logging onto the servers Win2003 Server I want to stop everyone apart from domain\administrator and the servers local administrator account from being able to log on the server (ie. sat in front of the actual server itself). Can i do this through GPO? Thanks... 4 08.07.2007 13:01:08 Group Policy and Ratings Hello, I think I posted this in the wrong place a couple of days ago. So I will try it here instad. I have a 2003 Server and some XP SP2 Clients. I have created a new GPO to control some User settings on these clients. Everything I set up works fine (turning of functions, controlling popups and so on). The only thing that doesn't work is setting up Ratings and restricted sites. It... 2 06.07.2007 14:18:00 Disabling Reading Pane in Outlook 2003 via GPO Hello, I have been looking everywhere, trying to figure out how to disable the reading pane in Outlook 2003. I cannot find a registry key to change so I can set this via GPO. Nothing has worked. The TC1D1 for previous versions was 5514. What is the Control Bar ID for 2003? No one seems to have the answer. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\DisabledCmdB... 3 06.07.2007 06:06:02 registry entries for startup script on server 2003 i'm looking for the registry enteries that get created when configuring a startup script locally on a server via GPEDIT.MSC. For example, when the server bootsup I want to run a startupscript located at c:\winnt\sytem32\boot_test.cmd. What are the registry enteriest that get created. I need to do this via script. ... 6 05.07.2007 19:20:59 20 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20