GPO not applying to individual users
Hi All, I have approx. 1200 users over four AD sites. Each site has its own proxy server. Over the weekend we upgraded to our new proxy servers and I changed the GPO's to reflect the new servers. My...
View ArticleRecycle Bin - Windows 7 Mandatory Profile - Server 2012
Have just setup a test lab and have configure folder redirect for My Documents and so on, but on client A I delete a file and can see on the server that it in the recycle bin. But back on client A if I...
View ArticleChanging default picture viewer via GPO without changing image type and icon...
Hello,I am trying to change the default picture viewer for some file extensions (.bmp, .jpeg, .png and .tiff). Actually Windows Photo Viewer is the default viewer and we need to replace it with...
View ArticleGPP Printer: error code '0x80070006 The handle is invalid.'
Hello,We're using two 2008 R2 domain controllers, one 2008 R2 print server and six 2008 R2 XenApp terminal servers.A problem has occured with one of the terminal servers. It has completely stopped...
View ArticleExporting GPO's for different forests
Hi all,I'm looking for ways to work smarter with server builds for our smaller clients when we move them to new versions of SBS or from SBS to full server. I often find myself recreating the same GPO's...
View ArticleGPO: unable to configure a scheduled task to run under system account
Domain/Forest functional level: Windows Server 2003Issue description:I have a computer configuration policy where i'm trying to create a scheduled task (Windows Vista or Later).I want the task to run...
View ArticleHide Notification Area on Specific Computer
All of my users are local admins of their machines. this just makes life easy. I ran into a problem, though, when users started clicking around stuff in the system tray (windows update,...
View ArticleGPP - Delete Printers not getting applied
Hi,I don't seem to be able to find the right setting or hotfix to get this GPP Working.At several installations shared printers are mapped via GPP, everything works fine.Usually the mapped printers are...
View ArticleGroup Policy Client service does not start
Hi,As soon as I (administrator on my PC) logon to Windows 7, I get a message saying that the Group Policy Client service failed to start. I'm not sure why I'm getting this error even though the...
View Article"This program is blocked by group policy"
Hi all. I have searched Google a fair bit on this but shockingly I just can't find an actual answer. The Group Policy forum is where I should have started rather than finally come to :)I am no genius...
View Articlewindows 7 windows server 2003 domain controller screen saver
Hello all,For some reasons sometime some windows 7 client computers screen saver doesn't kick in after 20 minutes according to the setting in the AD. All other GPOs seem to be working fine. Window XP...
View Article2 GPOs with firewall exceptions: one applies, one does not
I've run across what appears to be a strange issue in our Group Policy setup.We have 2 GPOs set up to add firewall exceptions within our domain. One has a firewall exception defined for program A; the...
View ArticleGPO:Windows Event Log Service
I have a GPO that is stopping the Windows Event Log service from starting. I need to know what GPO setting causes this problem. The Windows Event Log service cannot be started and the reason is, “Error...
View ArticleGroup Policy processing has been aborted because the file gpt.ini cannot be...
Hi Everyone,We have 20 Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 DC's with only ONE of the DC's reporting this problem:The processing of Group Policy failed. Windows attempted to read the file...
View ArticleGPO to deploy a shortcut to all users in a domain.
Hi.I have a shortcut that I need deployed to all users in my domain. I cba going to each individual computer to add it =)I have the shortcut on P:\XXXX\YYYY.ink or computername: MYSERVERDC01, P:...
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Scheduled Task (run as, At Logon) from GPO
Hi, i configured Scheduled Task in GPO for 8D\Test user. This User is non-admin on PC or domain. This task must be run as user8D\Alex, when 8D\Test is logon - but it is not working. That is wrong?If...
View ArticleReport: Computer in AD but not in WSUS?
Hello,Does a report showing the server existing in Active Directory and not showing in WSUS exist?Thnaks,DomSystem Center Operations Manager 2007 / System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 /...
View ArticleGPO not deploying access is denied
Hi guys,Having a problem with GPO. I created a shortcut GPO and it seems to be working fine. I created another GPO software install package but it says its inaccessible. Permissions on the first...
View Articledeploy printers via GPO from server with only local admin credentials logged in
I've got Print Manager role installed and working on a domain server. Run>\\ServerPrint\MySharedPrinter double-click and it installs. I've even got the security configured using AD DL groups on the...
View ArticleGPSI Software remains cached on AD
Hi. I've got one GPO where a software installation remains cached. It does *not* appear in the actual GPO (when opening GPM and modifying the GPO) but when a computer retrieves the GPO it still sees...
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