Group Policy

Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 Domain Controller Group Policy registry change

Windows 2003 Server R2 SP2 Domain Controller is used to deploy software installation package to WinXP clients in TEST AD group. Software distribution loads perfectly but a necessary registry change does not take. Used Reg2ADM.exe to produce 2 registry keys from an existing XP client. No errors show...

group policy not apply in user or computer win xp from w2k3 server

Dear all i have a wondows server 2003 domain  and 10  client  in windows xp  all  computer  member in domain  and  login  properly  in domain  from  win xp  computer i have a problem when i change a group policy  in win 2k3 server user side not any effect (example -change desktop ...

Issues with Group Policies and/or Exchange 2003 SP2

We are planning our Migration from a Windows 2003 Domain to Windows 2008 Domain and want to know if there will be any issues with our Group Policies currently in place and any issues with our current Exchange 2003 ENT SP 2 environment after the migration is completed. We do not plan to do anything...

Windows Server 2008 GPO for USB Devices

How can i block USB devices being used in ouur domain. We have A windows Server 2008 R2 with Windows 7 Software/Hardware used: Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7

Pushing certification out via Active Directory on Windows 2003 Domain

We've setup an internal website that contains a certificate that IE flags. I've tried pushing the cert out via AD using group policy, but most of our users are still being prompted about the certificate. I've imported the certifcate under Computer Config - Windows Settings - Security...

Copy group policy object OU

I am testing a GPO OU and i want to roll it out across the entire domain. How can i copy it across? Software/Hardware used: group policy

Windows 7 clients on windows server 2003

currently have 10 vista and 15 xp clients on a windows server 2003 domain. want to add a few windows 7 clients and am curious if there will be any issues related to the group policy we have on our windows server 2003 Software/Hardware used: windows 7, windows server 2003

Windows Server 2008 group policy for trusted sites

We have Windows 2008 Server and all workstation have IE7. We want to set upTrusted Sites in IE7 via group policy for all workstations. How do i enable this option on windows server 2008 and the workstations.  Software/Hardware used: Windows Server 2008, IE7

Group policy filtering on both OU and Site?

Hi ! I'm a newbie to group policy handling and are just now struggeling trying to deploy printers this way. I am running Windows 2008 as servers and XP, Vista and soon W7 as workstations. I have 3 different sites and in AD, computers divided into 3 child OU's - Server, Laptop and Workstations. My...

Port security

Hi All, We have enabled port security in our environment using the below command switchport port-security mac-address sticky the above command reserves the mac address of the connected PC to that particular port and in order to remove this we have to give [strong]no  switchport port-security...

How can I Control users on Internet access Restricted and Unrestricted

How can I add a GPO policy for all our users that can restrict the use of internet and also another group for unrestricted use for internet. We already have a policy and a group but for some reason? it's not working well, do you have a step by step a procedure for wk2003.     THANKS,

GPO filtering

can someone help to explain how to know default local gpo settings on machines before aplication of domain GPO setting?

How can I Control users on Internet access Restricted and Unrestricted

How can I add a GPO policy for all our users that can restrict the use of internet and also another group for unrestricted use for internet.   THANKS,

Loopback Processing

I have a workstations OU with approx. 200 computers in it. Out of those 200 computers, I have 5 of them that when logged into by any user needs to have the screensaver exempted. I have built a security group, added the 5 workstations to the group that needs the screensaver exempt policy. I then...

Windows Server 2003 domain controller group policy error

I am having an issue with our domain controller Group Policy. we are running windows server 2003 sp2 when I open Default domain group Policy i get the following error: Failed to open the Group policy Object. You may not have appropriate rights. event id 1030 and event id 1058 ...

microsoft windows XP Restrict user from changing desktop background?

Can anyone tell me how to restrict user from changing desktop background, while it home pc and not connected in lan, having broadband internet connection. please answer in datail and how to do it practically.. thanks in advance Software/Hardware used: OS : microsoft windows xp sp2 , RAM : 512mb,...

Default Windows server 2003 Group policy settings

I am being asked to document the differences between the default Windows server 2003 group policy settings and the current group policy settings for our domain. Does anyone know where I can get the default group policy settings from ? Also, I am looking for a tool that will be able to compare the...

doesn't work block policy inheritance on OU domain controller

hi all I applied some policy under administrative tamplates on domain level , however applied same policies to OU domain controller , even checked block policy inheritance any suggestion                                                       ...

Group Policy to have all users AutoArchive every 7 days

I am looking for a group policy that will make all users AutoArchive run every 7 days and clean out items older than 1 week.

To set up an option of Windows XP auto lockout after a defined period?

Hello Guys, I am running an windows XP professional OS would like configure it to lockout after 5 minutes of idle activity. Can anybody let me know the option? Thanks in advance.