Hi,
Hope you can help me on this one. I have a server that is part of our domain and as such it had Group Policy applied to it. One of the policy settings was to stop Windows Updates, as that is being managed by a 3rd party piece of software.
I have been having a problem with this particular client (Windows Server 2008 R2 64bit) being at the correct patch level, so decided to manually download the Windows Updates. However, Group Policy is blocking me from doing this obviously. I have removed the computer account to a different OU that doesn't have this policy applied and still it reports that these settings are managed by your administrator. I did run gpupdate /force several times. I have removed the 3rd party patching software, but still no joy. I have then removed the client from the domain, and again ran gpupdate /force but the policy is still being applied.
I have also, as segguested on another site, renamed the C:\Windows\security\database\secedit.sdb and edb.chk files but nothing changes.
What I did next was join that client to another domain that doesn't have any Policies applied (a lab environment), but still the Windows Update settings are being controlled by the administrator.
Just FYI, I cannot get into Services, or any other mmc, as I have a problem with IE and it prevents we launching it because it says it needs IE5.5 or higher. There is another post about this.
Thanks in advance