GPO Error on Windows Server DC
Hi,I have an issue in one of my DC. The GPO event error shows below:The processing of Group Policy failed. Windows could not resolve the computer name. This could be caused by one of more of the...
View ArticleWindows 7 / 2008 R2 GPO for Screen timeout not working.
What a joke. Why can't I get a simple screen saver to work VIA gpo with Windows 7 / 2008 R2? What is the fix?User Config\admin templates\control panel\Personalization---Enable Screen Saver - Enabled,...
View ArticleNo "Compatibility View" Options
I'm working on setting up a GPO to push out some compatibility view settings for IE. But in my Group Policy editor there are no "Compatibility View" settings. I'm looking in Administrative Templates...
View ArticleChange the password prompts on domain joined computers to reflect configured...
Hi AllIs this possible? at the very least we would like to maybe supply a static message with some more detail about the password requirements at the time when the password change is needed.At the...
View ArticleBlock Group Policy on a User only on a specific machine while the same policy...
I have policy applied on users but i want to disable this policy on specific user on specific machine otherwise i need the same user when trying to log on any other machine the same policy applied on...
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Windows Server 2012 GPOs Won't Sync
We have a small domain with two domain controllers running Windows Server 2012 (NOT R2).Recently, one of our GPOs (our main GPO) became out of sync across the two DCs. Using GPMC, the infrastructure...
View ArticleDelete Browsing History 2003 R2 ... Script Needed?
Server 2003 R2. I enabled in the GPO "configure delete browsing history on exit." But apparently it doesn't delete the browsing history for the clients using Internet Explorer 8 on XP. As the computers...
View ArticleSoftware Restrictions Inconsistency
Hello,We use Software Restrictions to block users from launching Outlook on their client machines. We do however allow some users to run Outlook and we do this by assigning them to a group which has...
View ArticleDrive maps made with Group Policy preferences never time out and cause...
We have a mix of Windows 8 and 8.1 computers whose users are assigned drive mappings via Group Policy Preferences. If a computer is connected to the office network, or a remote user is connected via...
View ArticleTo create a policy to control access rights for user or users
Hi,I want to do a user access control in my 2008r2 domain environment. This basically will be setting up role based access control for users like developers, regular users, supports guys apart from...
View Articledelete regkey from...
hellolooking to delete regkey from all PC's HKLM. there are multiple entries under [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]I only want to delete one of them '...
View ArticleGroup Policy/PowerShell: Copy-GPO Doesn't Migrate all DACLs?
Hi All -I haven't found a solution or official MS resource that describes whether or not the following is supported: ISSUE: When copying a GPO from one production (child) domain to another (child)...
View ArticleGPO - Disable the access to Change the Local Admin Password
Greetings Everyone,Although i have idea, but i want to make sure that Domain Users cant change Local Admin Password untill and unless they are not part of any other group with the adequate...
View ArticleUpdate of local administrator account is wiping the additional members of the...
Hello all, I'm trying to perform 2 tasks with Group policy preferences on the local machines1. update the local administrator settings (set no password expiry, add another emergency account we can...
View ArticleExculde a group of PC from a GPO scope
Hello,I have created a gpo to be applied to a computer level. this GPO should apply to all computers except one.I've created a global security group and added this computer to it.In the group policy...
View ArticleGPO setting disabled in SECPOL but enabled in RSOP
Hi, I've been trying to fix this for several days and it's hard to get specific answers from the usual searches. Please can someone help?I'm not strictly an IT technician, but have been doing a task...
View ArticleDeploying Certificates via group policy
We have our own CA certificate server. I am implementing certificates for our remote users for VPN. I am in a pilot phase where I can apply a user certificate from the CA on the notebook PC. The issue...
View ArticleLocal administrators groups removed after gpupdate from windows 7 64bit VM
Hi,I have a windows 7 workstation. And whenever I add any group into the local admins it get removed after running up of gpupdate or restart of the machine.I have tried to give group from AD to that...
View ArticleEvent 1096 - Registry policies
Hello there,I'm getting this event every time I run gpupdate on my server:The processing of Group Policy failed. Windows could not apply the registry-based policy settings for the Group Policy object...
View Articlehow to control administrators rights on OU
Hi,I have a case in which I have to set some OUs users would get local admins on there AD account as they login on any workstation. On the other hand I have OUs users when they login on any workstation...
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