Hello everyone,
I have a question about working with server 2012 & 8.1 and group policy loopback processing mode.
The thing is I have a test environment with server 2012 and windows 8.0 for group policy management.
I created a OU with a windows 8.0 machine and linked a new GPO.
In this GPO I configured a few settings configured under computer configuration and some user configuration settings.
- In user configuration I configured drive maps, desktop shortcuts and location for default library files.
- In computer configuration I configured group policy loopback processing mode (replace).
All went well on the server 2012 - 8.0 environment, but when I updated my client from 8.0 to 8.1 the user configuration policies are not aplied.
We are going to upgrade our servers to 2012R2 but untill that time I would like this to work.
So now I simplified my testing to rule out probable causes. I created a server 2012R2-windows 8.1 test environment as well as server 2012-windows 8.1:
In both environments I put the 8.1 machine in a OU with a GPO that has group policy loopback processing mode to enabled (replace) and under user configuration I defined 1 drive map.
This worked fine in the server 2012R2-windows 8.1 environment, but did not in the server2012 - windows 8.1 environment.
I can't find much support on Windows server 2012 with Windows 8.1 issue's. My question, is it possible or is server 2012 just not compatible with windows 8.1? And (if I'm not doing something terribly wrong), is there a way to get this working without upgrading the server to R2?