Quick question - hopefully there is a quick answer....
We recently moved our primary DC to a new server (hardware) -  I have
everything done/moved except 2 things...  I need to run dcpromo yet to demote
it -- and I need to move my Group Policy Management Console to the new DC.

hello;
I am looking to see if their is a GP to block users from accessing device
manger. i disabled control panel access but they can still get to dm through
right clicking on my computer then going to manage

Does anyone know of a way to limit the number of pages a person can print in
Windows Server 2003?  I have a number of students who think it is a great
idea to print massive .pdf documents of stuff on our printers instead of
their own printer at home.

in my win3k AD, i got some workstations that need to run a special
application that need permissions to read and write to some registry
keys. I would like to create a GPO that allow everyone that logon from
that workstation to be able to read and write to that registry key.

Is there any way of allowing a user "Log on as a service" from a script ?
TIA
/ Allan Bentsen

I am having issues with restricting User Installs.
I could only find Windows Installer on Computer Settings. I find this a
nightmare because when i enable it on the computer accounts, that computer
can't run install no matter what. Even if I give the "Run As" with

I am running Windows 2003 servers and all clients are Windows xp, with folder
redirection in place with offline file enabled.  We recently replaced a
server and migrated the data over with no trouble.  I corrected the group
policy to reflect the proper name of the new server and ...

I find it very interesting that M$ has provided us with a way to deploy
printers via GPO, but am I missing something when I cannot specify what
printer is the default for my OU's?  I am hearing that users with are having
to change their default printers everytime they log onto ...

Has anyone seen or found a fix for the issue where some client machines have
a flashing of the monitor(s) during auto or manual group policy refreshes? I
was able to deduce based on the timing of this flashing that it might be
policy related and then I was able to repro the issue ...

I would like to create a WMI filter that checks if a users is part of a
specifik OU but can't find the solution?
/Lasse

Hi;
I created windows 2003 Server a new Group Policy and add user, i connect
remote desktop connection to the server but "The local policy of this system
does not permit you to login interactively" display error.I setup local

When setting the Home Page URL gp at the domain level, it applies fine.  When
I try to set the same policy at the OU level, it doesn't enforce.  The same
policy with proxy settings will, but the home page url doesn't.  Is it
possible that certain policies can only be applied at ...

G'day all;
I'm trying to write a Group Policy to allow certain ActiveX controls to
load on machines without local admin privileges. This is what I've come
up with after some extensive Googling, but for some reason it won't

I currently have a GPO for installing Adobe Reader 7.0. I created a
new GPO to install Adobe Reader 812 which I have set to upgrade any
7.0 installs. A user logs on and 7.0 is uninstalled and 812 is
installed. that is fine. My question is , does the 812 need the 7.0

I'm having some really strange problems and I cant work out how to solve them.
It seems that some of my clients are not detecting the Security Groups they
are in.
I have tried the "gpupdate /force" command on these laptops but to no avail.