In my new position I am now responsible for the agencies Group Policy
set up. I have recently found out that the person that set these up (I
replaced his replacement!!) so its been a while -- that he didn't have
much knowledge of GPOs and I am thinking that it is pretty apparent. I

lI have some users that need a special prozy settings in IE. I have attempted
a gpo  using internet explorer maint. and set up connections imputting the
right settings . I then do a gpupdat /force on the workstaion . The settings
never show under proxy server settings   Also ...

I have a W2k3 AD network. There is already a default domain policy that has
been modified and it is being applied to all the PCs and Users who login
into the network. In my AD, I have a create an OU and added some users in
there. In GP editor, I have create a new GP and modified ...

working in a domain, client XP SP2
we have a problem with one client (notebook): when a certain user logs on,  
the OS hangs on "Executing: Begin User Group Policy" and all that helps is a
hard reset.

Is it possible with Group policy to say which of the Domain controllers
applies the policies to the workstations? We have 2 2003 DCs one is the FSMO
and 1 2000 DC and a NT4.0 BDC in the domain and a mixture of XP and Vista
and 2003 TS Servers. I am assuming that it is whatever ...

We have it locked down so users cannot download anything from IE or load
active x unless the site is configured as a trusted site. Is it possible to
retain this, but ONLY allow PDF documents to be downloaded from any site?

I have a GPO set up on a OU (on machine startup) to add a printer any
computer in that OU.
That all seems to work fine however I can't figure out where in the
policy to make this printer I just

With XP computer, I use group policy management console to manage group
policies.  Can anyone help me with which tool I should use to manage group
policies on Vista computer?  (Windows 2003 SP2 and most XP computers
environment)