I have created a policy that has application whitelisting. I have
spent hours on this policy. I need to copy the policy 2 more times.
Making slight changes to it each time.
When I attempt to copy the policy I get the error GPO policy: Failed.

I joined a Server 2008 to a 2003 AD domain.  The 2008 Server is generating
many, many errors in the event logs including many services that won't
start.  Many of the reasons are "Access is denied".  Are there any group
policy settings from a 2003 domain that don't work and would ...

Gurus,
In my company, I am trying to favor a departmentally-organized OU structure.
The benefits of using a departmentally-organized OU structure is that it
matches the org chart.  What do you all use out there in the field?

There is a single XP with SP3 machine in our domain which refused to install any application that has been assigned to it through group policies.  It started up as normal but didn't, like the others, automatically load any application which has been assigned to it.  It only ...

I find that I can not add shortcuts (nor can any installation program)
(to any Start Menu - even under the Administrator account.  I can,
however, add folders (with shortcutsinside  either during installs or
manually to any Start Menu.  Additionally, I do have a single,

I am installing a new domain, SAN, and Servers.  Where can I find a document
on how to push to the workstations all the SQL database ODBC information from
a group policy?  The ODBC connections will be new.  I want them to replace
the current ones.  All the new servers are Windows ...

Sometimes I need to force the group policy update.
Is there a way to set policy to force that everytime it's applied?
Or wait the policy be applied before login finish?
Thankyou in advance.

I am hunting -- no luck, so far -- for a group policy that will remove users
certificates (those shown in IE -> Tools -> Internet Options -> Content ->
Certificates) when the user logs off.
Even better would be a policy that doesn't retain their smart card

I am new to Active Directory and Group Policy Editing (I am a Novell
Specialist).
I am still studing how implement the microsoft domain (login script, policy,
etc), but I have to put some workstations in the domain as fast as I can for

I created an adm file:
CLASS USER
   CATEGORY "Date Format Settings"
       POLICY "Set date format"

We set up a restricted group policy using the "member of" method to
add a group to the local administrators group of all the PC's in an
OU.
The policy works and adds the group on first reboot, but when the

Here is an example scenario:
I have a GPO that includes the new GP Preference settings to create a
Scheduled Task.  An Administrator deletes the Scheduled Task and it will not
come back.  Even moving the machine out of the applicable OU and back in

In a Server 2003 environment [SBS], please advise if I can set a group
policy to make the default choice of RDC to connect to the Domain
rather than the local machine.
When logging onto a client via RDC from any Client or the server I

i would like to disable, by policy, the option:
"Scroll effect" into menu "Effects..." into tab Appearance into Display
Properties.
Thank's all

hi does anybody know how to stop people from running the games built in xp
pro is there a policy i can use to stop them playing the default games
thanks for any help