OU policy not being applied

[ljCharlie]

I have created an OU in my domain user for a group. In this OU I created a policy that applies to this group. However, it doesn't look like the group is being applied by this policy. Any idea why the group policy isn't being applied?

ljCharlie

 

[rye8261]

Are you applying the policy to a group or to users? I beleive that i read somewhere that you can not apply a group policy to a group (i know it sounds stupid). Instead you have to move the users into the OU. Have you tried this? Also, what OS are you using for the users, 2000 or XP?

 

[Stevearino]

Not sure if this applies to your situation but the way I did it for our Terminal Servers was to create a OU called Terminal Servers and then move the servers to that OU. I then applied the GP to that OU and added a group called "WTS Users" to the list of groups/users that the GP would be applied to. Also had to make sure that "Authenticated Users" was in that list.

Steve

 

[ljCharlie]

Thanks for the responses. I created an OU called My Users then I move the users in the default Users group to that OU I just created. Then I right click on that OU name "My Users" select Properties/Group Policy/ and then click on Add to add a new GP. Isn't this correct?

ljCharlie

 

[davidwilson11]

sounds correct, what OS are you using, if its 2k then you need to tell the server to run the GP by the command if its 2k3 the do the policy and go to the run in the start menu and type gpupdate to update the policy

 

[ljCharlie]

So in the Windows 2003 server, type in gpupdate will update the group policy? I didn't know that? Well, it works! I don't know why..but after a couple of rebooting and making changes to some obvious settings...the policy works. I guess I could've used the gpupdate if I've known that.

Thanks!

ljCharlie