How to restricting machine renaming
Hi,I have 15 locations and 1 engineer per site. Instructions have been given to all to follow the naming conventions while joining a machine to domain.But we observed that engineers are not following...
View Articlefolder redirection to inaccessable folder
HiI work in a corproate environment running server 2003 and windows XP SP3 on the client. About 200 clients seem to think that their My Documents folder should be mapped to a technicians file share....
View ArticleOffline Files Sync Failing, access denied to incorrect folder location
Hi,We have our users setup with Folder Redirection and Offline Files Syncronisation on Windows 7 Enterprise clients (x64). Server Side is 2008 R2.The problem we have is that users Offline files sync is...
View ArticleCreating Desktop Short cut - Group Policy Preferences
HI All, I have a Hidden Share Folder in File server ( \\server1\share$) Share: Authenticate users read and NTFS : readshare group and writegroup i have create two Groups - Readshare and...
View ArticleEvent ID: 6005 & 6006 -
Getting the following application event log warnings but can't seem to trace where they are coming from. Have tried unlinking all GPOs & GPPs but that doesn't seem to stop the warnings. Any...
View ArticleWallpaper Group Policy -Active Desktop Recovery Screen.
Hi,We have configured Group policy for Desktop Wallpaper for entire users and set the UNC path of "Jpeg" wallpaper"Now some users are getting "Active Desktop Recovery Screen on XP desktops .My question...
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GPP add group to local administrator doesn't work
hello allwe have a gpp that add a nt group to local administrator. Since we use a MDT (deployment) clone it doesn't work. Now we have change anything that the GPO is not in clone and add group was...
View ArticleWindows 8 and IE10 not accepting Proxy Settings via Group Policy
We have recently introduced a couple of Windows 8 computers in our network, and we are having issues applying the Internet Explorer Proxy Server settings.We use a Microsoft TMG 2010 server as our proxy...
View ArticleInternet Explorer maintenance policy not working
Hi All,I am banging my head against this group policy wall, I am trying to apply Internet Explorer Maintenance policy on an OU but its not working i can see the polcy at the user end in RSOP, but its...
View ArticleTrusted sites and Internet Zone security level GPO is not applying in Windows...
We have a Windows Server 2008 R2 dedicated to Remote Desktop Services. Nothing else is running on it. IE ESC is turned off for users, so remote users can browse freely. Most of the group policies i...
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Wildcard for substring in Item-Level targeting via registry setting
We are trying to apply a GPO based on the IP subnet of a VM's underlying device's IP address. This IP address is listed in the HKCU\Volatile Environment\ViewClient_IP_Address. If I configure the...
View ArticleApplying a users only GPO to a specific server as opposed to applying the GPO...
This might be a stupid question so bear with me, but I am creating a new user specific GPO that I want to apply to users using a specific server, how can I do this and have it apply without having to...
View ArticleGPP Printers Randomly Not Applying on Windows Server 2008 R2 Terminal Servers
Hello,I have 5 Windows Server 2008 R2 terminal servers that I push printers to via Group Policy Preferences. These are shared printers on the user side of the GPO. I have loopback processing turned on...
View Article2008 R2 pdc Gpresult, access denied, rsop times out, gpupdate hangs "updating...
We have a pdc running server 2008 R2, when I run gpupdate on the server, it waits for about 5 minutes on "updating settings....." then finishes normally. I installed gplogview. Running gplogview /m...
View ArticleServer 2003 - Internet Explorer Maintenance - Group Policy - Content Advisor...
My server is Windows 2003 Small Business Server 32-bitThe clients are Windows XP 32-Bit with Service Pack 3.I receive no error messages, but the websites are still accessible.I have been trying to set...
View ArticleTranslate or convert GPOs from earlier versions
I need to translate many GPOs from previous versions of Office and Windows Versions. Specifically, I need to be able to translate Office 2003 GPO settings to the corresponding (if one exists) in...
View ArticleUsers GPO are not apply
Hello,I dont understand something in GPO. i have an old GPO in my server (Windows 2008R2) and this GPO modifiy only "User configuration" but it apply to an OU where there are only computers. This GPO...
View ArticleFolder redirection problems after migration
We did a migration of server 2008 to server 2012 and also moved the folder redirection. In the policy the option move to new location was enabled.I changed the network path to the new location and it...
View ArticleFolder Redirection over Slow Link GPO
Hi there, 2 questions:1) Anyone has experience with Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 clients running Folder Redirection over a slow link (~400-450 kbps)?2) I've enabled Folder Redirection through a GPO...
View ArticleSimple Group Policy not working
I have just created a new OU in AD containing accounts of users who only require a mailbox (no interactive logon required). To tighten the security, I have created a new Group policy for that OU,...
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