Group Policy Questions - Need Some Answer

[bombergirl]

I have 3 domain controllers at 3 different sites. Users all logon to the same domain called SPNET. I have setup 2 group profile policy settings at the head office to be pushed down to 2 different departments on their Windows XP clients. Profile testing work perfectly at the head office.

TOday I went down to one of the branch office where the other DC is located and logon using the same userid. Some of the settings were not pushed down (like wallpaper) and removing my network places from Desktop. A check on the eventid shows eventid 1058 and 1030.

I realise that from event id 1058. my client pc is unable to find the gpt.ini for that particular group policy in my branch office DC's sysvol. I did a check on my branch office sysvol policy folder, and could't find the unique identifer that was stated in the event id logs. So i copy over from my main office the sysvol gp.ini entire folders and move it to the branch office folder. And it works perfectly.

I need to know is this the correct method to do so? Between, if i make any changes to the main office gp settings, does that means i need to copy over the settings to my branch office? Please advise. and sorry for the long post.

 

[basst]

What speed is the connection to the remote office? i.e. is it less than 500K?

 

[bombergirl]

its a 1MB link

 

[basst]

There is a slow link detection setting that could cause GPO problems. The default is 500K for this but you are OK there.

The process you did is roughly what you would do if a group policy becomes corrupt.

I would check for replication errors in case this was the cause of the initial problem.

 

[elmurado]

Run gpresults wizard in the GPMC against the users/computers in question. This will give you some idea of what may have gone wrong and also will give you access to the event viewer logs for that user/computer. The problem I found with 1030 1058 errors was that many underlying things could cause them. In our case it was Broadcom gigabit cards that were set to Auto and not hard set.