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   Help Managing Local Group Policies Hello, I need some assistance in managing local group policies (LGPs) on my XP Pro SP2 machines. These machines are in a 2003 domain and those policies are fine. My question relates to managing the LPGs on these machines, either in out of the domain. I need to do this because these machines are sometimes placed into workgroups. Also, I want to be able to set the LPGs in addition ... 2 27.04.2007 08:40:23 GPO-Assigned Software from DFS on Clustered 2003 Server - Please H I'm trying to set our software distribution point up on a DFSRoot this is hosted on a clustered Windows 2003 file server. I've setup the DFSRoot and software dist file share using Cluster Administrator and applied Read permissions to Authenticated Users on both as well as setting the same permissions for NTFS. I have no problem assigning a piece of software in a policy pointing at \\cl... 2 28.04.2007 00:05:13 Loopback Processing Mode I'm trying to set some user settings for people that login to specific computers. The computers are spread out over different OU's. I have Loopback Processing Mode set to merge, but it doesn't seem to be working correctly. When I run RSoP, it doesn't show it getting applied at the user level. All the computers I'm trying to set are in a group. I gave the group read and apply group p... 2 27.04.2007 23:53:09 User-based policy to configure domain password settings I have a need to be able to set the password age for one particular user differently than the rest. In other words, our global domain password settings require domain passwords be changed every 180 days and the user is prompted to change starting 14 days out from expiration. I have one user that I need to set at 90 days and to be prompted 7 days out. The only GPO settings I could find we... 2 27.04.2007 21:43:14 IE7 and favourites and links We are deploying new pc’s in the company Win XP, Office 2003 and IE7 with all the latest patches and service packs I created a GPO that defines URL/favourites and links Settings are “place favourites and links at the top …” enabled Delete existing favourites/ channels is not configured The users have a roaming profile When they first log on to the new machines they loose their existi... 2 27.04.2007 14:28:03 Group Policy Firewall Exception Problem Hopefully this is the best NG for this issue: I have set up about a dozen or more Windows 2003, R2 servers on our AD domain of about 8000 computers. On each of these I have set up the Windows Firewall with exceptions for things such as File Sharing and Remote Desktop, limiting the scope to the Class B network represents our corporate network. A few days ago, users suddenly and tempora... 7 27.04.2007 01:24:03 unlock computer log off rights This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0058_01C78659.ACD96C50 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Is there a security setting I can set to allow a helpdesk users to log = off another user who has the screen locked with (ctrl + alt + delete).=20 I would like to avoid telling helpdesk to just power off the ... 3 26.04.2007 21:56:35 How to minimize amount of unnecessary files in profile.. Hi, Where can I find info on which gpo properties to set to minimize the size of each user's roaming profile (low temorary internet cache, other temp files deleted etc...). w2003r2 server and winxp-pro clients Thanks for comments and hints Jake... 4 26.04.2007 21:41:46 GPO in Citrix/Terminal Server environment For the first time I'm in the process of implementing GPO so I need some basic guidelines to get started. We have various users using various applications some GPO's will apply to all of them and some GPO's will apply to a few of the users. Should I create a different GPO for each group of users or should I create many different GPO's and apply them to who ever needs them. I'm thinkin... 3 26.04.2007 09:12:42 Sample code for a Group Policy Client-side Extension (C++) Dear Expert, I have to write a Group Policy Client-side Extension in C++ and would like to look at a sample CSE written in C++. Any help or pointer (pun not intended) in this direction is greatly appreciated. Thank you very much. Ruchira ... 3 26.04.2007 08:46:58 GPO Software Installation Question Dear all, I would like to know the implication of enabling the "Always install with elevated privileges" setting. Does this mean that all subsequent MSI files (downloaded from the WEB or from CD/DVD) can be installed on machine that do not have admin privileges?. Thanks. Regards, Kueh. ... 5 26.04.2007 07:48:42 Group Policy Client-side Extension in C++ Dear Expert, I have to create a group policy client-side extension in C++. I have googled a lot to find sample code or instructions on how to do so. Any help in this direction is greatly appreciated. Thanking you. Ruchira ... 1 26.04.2007 04:23:26 turn off headers and footers in IE Hi there, I would like to turn the headers and footers off in IE7 with group policy. I have found you can do it locally like this: To change how a webpage looks when it prints Click the arrow to the right of the Print button , and then click Page Setup. In the Header and Footer boxes, specify the information to be printed by using the following variables. Variables can be combined wit... 5 26.04.2007 02:46:02 Missing Quick Launch There is a setting some where in the GPO for students at our school that turns off the Quick Launch Bar. Can anyone point me to the correct setting? TIA ... 4 25.04.2007 22:04:03 Admin Template to force users of on a particular computer. Can someone please help me by providing me with a group policy template to force any user of a particular computer if they have been idle for 60 minutes. I believe that it can be done by changing the screen saver to use winexit.exe. If you could also point me to a url that explains the creation of these templates and a list of fields that can be used it would be greatly appreciated. ... 5 25.04.2007 21:34:00 GPO and Win 2k Pro Clients We are in the process on migrating to Active Directory. We are in mixed mode, I created OUs to separate our Corporation's entities. There are two parent OUs that separate the two majority companies, and child OUs under each that breakdown the smaller businesses. I applied exceptions for Windows Firewall at one of the parent OUs for Anti Virus. After moving computers into the child OU of ... 3 25.04.2007 21:32:43 Export/Import GPO settings Hi All I've got a nice little GPO settings list on my 1st school's server and now I want to use this on my 2nd school's server. Is there anyway I can CLEANLY export and then import the GPO settings from one server to another? Thanks ... 2 25.04.2007 19:17:34 Folder Redirection Hi, I configured folder redirection through GPO on a Windows Server 2003 domain. The folders are being redirected properly but when creating a new user It is not moving existing desktop shortcuts from Default User profile to the new redirected location like it used to when I first configured the folder redirection. Has anyone seen this problem. Yes the box next to Move the contents of De... 1 25.04.2007 14:26:06 IE7 GP settings seem to have disappeared with WS03 sp2 I use a Terminal Sever with GPMC installed to mange GP's for use on the TS & XP SP2 workstations I have just noticed that since SP2 for server 2003 many of the IE7 options have disappeared (e.g. "Moving the menu bar above the navigation bar") Is there a work round for this? regards roga ... 2 25.04.2007 07:16:06 Creating .adm File I am trying to create an adm file to redirect my favorites to a specific location using goup policy. When I try to load the file I get an error message saying it's expecting category but categor is what's there. I don't understand what's going on because I have category there. Can someone please look at the contents of my file and let me know what's going on. (I using it on a Windows... 4 24.04.2007 21:40:49 Folder Redirection Ok, I am confused, I created a folder redirection for a users desktop file. Set it to redirect to server\profiles\user\desktop Worked ok. When the user logs onto the server throught terminal services if you right click a desktop file, sure enough it shows as located at server\profiles\user\desktop But if you go to the c:\documents and settings\user\desktop, the files are all being c... 2 24.04.2007 21:08:44 File association permissions via Group Policies We've got some Crystal software that requires users to clear the "Browse in same window" option for XLS files in the Advanced window of Folder Options - File Types. Unfortunately, this option is only available to administrators. I want to give regular users the ability to change this option, and I thought I could do it by applying a Group Policy that modifies the permissions of the ap... 5 24.04.2007 20:09:19 IE changes in GPO- Now "Open File Security Warning" I changed some security settings for Internet, Local Intranet and Trusted sites in our domain GPO. I also imported some Trusted sites from the workstation that I am using GPMC on to User Config- IE Maintenance- Security Zones and Contect ratings- security zones and privacy for that same GPO. Now we have users getting an "Open File Security Warning" when using applications. What setting c... 3 24.04.2007 15:58:05 HKCU_Explorer 'Shutdown Setting' GONE on Vista! Hi, When it's time for users to log off, and if they choose "Start : Shutdown", I want them to have "log off xxxyyyzzz" as the default. With help from this group some time ago, I set up a logon script to do this with my old Win2k setup and it's been working great ever since, it also has a check to exclude laptop users. The basic idea was to set the Shutdown Setting DWORD value in the regis... 1 24.04.2007 15:21:36 HKCU Software Publishing State Key Please - could someone point me in the right direction? At HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WinTrust\Trust Providers\Software Publishing is the value State and it is set to 0x00043c00 which according to SPats blog http://blogs.msdn.com/spatdsg/archive/2006/06/05/618082.aspx means "allow only items in personal trust database". I want to reset the value to 0x00023c00 bu... 2 24.04.2007 10:43:45 20 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20