I'm creating a custom adm file which sets the 'SearchSlowFiles' flag
in the registry.
The custom file works fine, but this particular registry setting only
works on XP (we don't want bogus registry entries cluttering up non XP

Hey Folks,
We have recently upgraded from 2000 Server to 2003 R2. We used a share
and mapped drive for individual user folders. GPO used the  \\server
\share\%username%  syntax. This resulted in My Documents folder

Trying to map users' home drive using path \\SERVERNAME\ShareName\%USERNAME%\
Logs shows "...failed with error code 0x800704b3 no network provider
accepted the given network path..."
It works using regular \\SERVERNAME\ShareName

Is there a way to completely block access to Power Options using a
GPO?
I've marked the control panel applet unopenable, but it appears that
you can still access Power Options via the screensaver tab, or by

This should be a simple question, but I have been unable to find a document
stating such.
If I have deployed Group Policy Client Side Extensions to all my computers
(XP SP2+; Windows 2003 SP1+ and Vista), do I need to use

I have a issue with Loopback policy, I hope you can help.
I have created a loopback policy and linked the policy to the Citrix OU as
shown below.
All the policy settings work.  The Problem is that the policy is also being

How can I block the GPO processing in a particular computer from a
computer view (so not by adding a security or a WMI filter settings
through the GPO object).
Thanks in advance

While the technology industry is not immune to the troubles facing the
U.S economy, it is positioned to weather a
downturn, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in a talk last week in
Santa Clara.

I'm going in circles here.
We have an OU called Corporate Users.  This OU has about 40 policies
associated with it, one of which is "Default Home Page," which points to our
corporate intranet web page.  So it looks something like this

On server 2003 i've set up a group profile which has restrictions for a
certain user.On the client machines, which are Dell laptops, only the
Inspiron models pick up the profile in the domain correctly. The Vostro
models,while picking up the profile in the domain,are not picking ...

We're using Folder Redirection to redirect the users My Documents to their
home folder.
We've recently moved their home folders to a new drive but for a small
number of users we're finding that when they logon after the home folder

We are running a Windows 2003 English version and default location is US. We
are running Terminal service and Citrix for remote user to access
applciation. Some of our remote users need to have additional input language
(Like Chinese or Japanese) other than US. As far as I know ...

Hello all, I hope someone has found a good solution to this.
We have been mandated by management to implament global power savings
configuration on all of our computers in our environment. We have about a
50/50 mixture of Windows 2000/XP.  We have the xp problem solved with the ...

I created a batch file in order to create and set a power scheme on XP
machines.  I have executed the batch file from a client XP machine to confirm
that it works.  However, when I try to use it as a machine startup script in
Group Policy, it doesn't work.  I know that the batch ...

Regarding the comment below from a posting a while back, can't I do the same
thing even if I'm using the old style logon script? Meaning can I put
regedit /s \\server\share\myreg.reg in a login.bat file? Either way, the
regedit would run at every logon, correct? Since I only have ...