Group Policy

[Rookcr]

Good morning,

I am using Microsoft's Group Policy manager. I have a few PC's that are a part of our domain but yet don't recieve the full policy, Mainly the home page redirect. We have the Tabs locked out so a user cannot change their home page but I have a few users who are not getting the default home page we programed. How is it applying part of the policy but not all of the policy.

Thanks

 

[ncotton]

Are you specifying all your settings in ONE GPO?
Are all your machines in ONE OU?
When you say a few users...do you mean on a few machines...if so, are these machines running pre Win2000/XP?
Are the machines that are having the problem using IE5 or above?

Neil J Cotton
njc Information Systems
Systems Consultant
HND, BSc HONS, CCNA, BCS, IETF, DMTF

 

[Rookcr]

ncotton,

I am using the default domain policy. The machines are XP SP2 and all current with patches.

 

[ncotton]

To Set Homepage - User Configuration > Windows Settings > Internet Explorer Maintenance > URLs > Important URLs > Homepage

To diable changing of the homepage - User Configuration > Adminsitrative Templates > Windows Compnents > Inernet Explorer > Disable Users from Changing Homepage (or something like that)

This policy will only work on win xp, win2k, win2k3 machines running IE5.01 or above.

If you are still having problems. Access a machine that is not applying the policy and go
Start > Run > type "gpupdate /force" > press enter > Cmd window will appear, may ask you to reboot, shouldn't do, but do so if it does. If it doesn't, reboot anyway once it has finished. Check whether the setting was applied.

If this still doesn't give you the desired affect, model a policy application.

In the GPMC, towards the bottom on the left hand pane, there is a node called "Group Policy Modelling" > right click > Group Policy Modelling Wizzard > Run on this Domain > Select radio button "Computer" and type the full domain account of the one computer you had just tried "MyDomain\AccountingPC12", and again.
At the bottom > Specify an invidual user rather than a group, again full domain logon "MyDomain\NancyDrew" - do not use an administrator logon, unless you are expeciencing the problem with just people with admin accounts.
Click Next, there is a small tab at the bottom of the page on the next slide, Go to Finish (or something like that). Check that and press next, then Finish.
In the right hand pane, You will be given an emulated set of data for applying the settings you have configured. Click the second tab, settings, and look for your homepage settings, if it isn't in there, you have a structural problem to how the GPOs are being applied. If it is in ther, and you are still having problems getting the setting to be applied, then you may have some permission problems or conflicting lcoal policies.

Just a note. Domain level policy is the first policy to be applied, therefore the weakest. Policies applied at any other level will overwrite any confilicting settings applied by group policy...unless you use the Enforce option on your GPO Link.

Post back with results.

Hope this was helpfull

Neil J Cotton
njc Information Systems
Systems Consultant
HND, BSc HONS, CCNA, BCS, IETF, DMTF

 

[Rookcr]

I have the application on my PC. when I try to do the modeling it say I do not have permissions.

Thanks