I logged in to a DC running Server 2008 R2 and added the Remote Registry service to the GPO with startup as Automatic (I didn't set anything else on the service) under Computer Configuration -> Preferences -> Control Panel Settings -> Services. Afterwards, I noticed computer policy changes were no longer showing up on client computers (WinXP or Win7). I ran gpupdate on the client computers, and they would fail to update the computer policy with this error:
The following warnings were encountered during computer policy processing: Windows failed to apply the Group Policy Services settings. Group Policy Services settings might hav e its own log file. Please click on the "More information" link. For more detailed information, review the event log or run GPRESULT /H GPReport.html from the comman d line to access information about Group Policy results.
The GPReport.html showed "the path could not be found" and said to see the Application Event Log. That shows this:
"The client-side extension could not apply computer policy settings for 'Default Domain Policy {31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}' because it failed with error code '0x80070003 The system cannot find the path specified.' See trace file for more details."I have verified that the service name is the same (RemoteRegistry) on the 2008 R2 machine where I set the policy and the Win7 machine where I saw the error. The icon for the service on the Group Policy Management Editor shows a warning sign (triangle with !) in front of the services icon. What am I doing wrong?