Guest Steve Spicer Posted July 4, 2008 Posted July 4, 2008 Hi, Apologies in advance from a "newbie" here if this is the wrong forum- seems the most appropriate on Google Newgroups. I manage our school network- nothing too exciting- 3 servers running Server 2003, mandatory profiles for the pupils and GPO objects to lock down the desktop managed through Active Directory. I am experimenting with Vista on our client machines at present and have some very weird issues. I've set up new GPO objects and the repository as explained in the Vista help guides for GPO, and edited them with the MMC plug in on a Vista machine. I have set up the Vista machine, joined it to the network, and then logged in as a pupil. The first time the pupil logs in, the desktop lockdown GPO objects all apply and the computer works as expected. However, if that pupil logs into the same machine again, the GPO is no longer applied. Which is very odd. Any suggestions or advice gratefully received before it drives me completely mad! Cheers, Steve
Guest Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] Posted July 4, 2008 Posted July 4, 2008 Re: GPO Vista Issue Steve Spicer <sjspicer@ntlworld.com> wrote: > Hi, > Apologies in advance from a "newbie" here if this is the wrong forum- > seems the most appropriate on Google Newgroups. Hi - Google Groups is useful for searching old posts, but is not the best way to access these newsgroups. The best group for your question is actually microsoft.public.windows.group_policy. > > I manage our school network- nothing too exciting- 3 servers running > Server 2003, mandatory profiles for the pupils and GPO objects to lock > down the desktop managed through Active Directory. > > I am experimenting with Vista on our client machines at present and > have some very weird issues. I've set up new GPO objects and the > repository as explained in the Vista help guides for GPO, and edited > them with the MMC plug in on a Vista machine. > > I have set up the Vista machine, joined it to the network, and then > logged in as a pupil. The first time the pupil logs in, the desktop > lockdown GPO objects all apply and the computer works as expected. > However, if that pupil logs into the same machine again, the GPO is no > longer applied. Which is very odd. > > Any suggestions or advice gratefully received before it drives me > completely mad! I'd check in the event logs - and rsop.msc - and then post a new message to the Group Policy NG for the most expert help, providing updated info. I don't use Vista (ptui!) yet, thankfully, so I'm not sure what to tell you, but I think you have to do some updates in W2003 to get Vista-specific stuff to load. > > Cheers, > Steve OT, but you might want to consider using a news client, such as Forte Agent, Thunderbird, or even Outlook Express, rather than the pretty clunky web interface to the newsgroups. It's a lot easier to do nearly everything that way. You can mark messages to be watched, filter the views so you can see replies to your posts easily, and search. The Microsoft public news server is msnews.microsoft.com and you can subscribe to as many groups as you like; no authentication is required. The following is from a post by MVP Malke ... ------------------------------------------------------- Here's information on Usenet and using a newsreader: http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page3.html#12-09-02 - a brief explanation of newsgroups http://michaelstevenstech.com/outlo...ssnewreader.htm http://rickrogers.org/setupoe.htm http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...wto/default.asp - Set Up Newsreader http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://aumha.org/nntp.htm - list of MS newsgroups microsoft.public.test.here - MS group to test if your newsreader is working properly http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm - how to munge email address http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm - multiposting vs. crossposting Some newsreaders for Windows http://www.forteinc.com/agent/index.php - for Forte http://www.mozilla.org (Thunderbird does newsgroups) http://gravity.tbates.org/ -------------------------------------
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