GPO Vista Issue

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Hi,
Apologies in advance from a "newbie" here if this is the wrong forum-
seems the most appropriate on Google Newgroups.

I manage our school network- nothing too exciting- 3 servers running
Server 2003, mandatory profiles for the pupils and GPO objects to lock
down the desktop managed through Active Directory.

I am experimenting with Vista on our client machines at present and
have some very weird issues. I've set up new GPO objects and the
repository as explained in the Vista help guides for GPO, and edited
them with the MMC plug in on a Vista machine.

I have set up the Vista machine, joined it to the network, and then
logged in as a pupil. The first time the pupil logs in, the desktop
lockdown GPO objects all apply and the computer works as expected.
However, if that pupil logs into the same machine again, the GPO is no
longer applied. Which is very odd.

Any suggestions or advice gratefully received before it drives me
completely mad!

Cheers,
Steve
 
Re: GPO Vista Issue

Steve Spicer <sjspicer@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Apologies in advance from a "newbie" here if this is the wrong forum-
> seems the most appropriate on Google Newgroups.

Hi - Google Groups is useful for searching old posts, but is not the best
way to access these newsgroups. The best group for your question is actually
microsoft.public.windows.group_policy.


>
> I manage our school network- nothing too exciting- 3 servers running
> Server 2003, mandatory profiles for the pupils and GPO objects to lock
> down the desktop managed through Active Directory.
>
> I am experimenting with Vista on our client machines at present and
> have some very weird issues. I've set up new GPO objects and the
> repository as explained in the Vista help guides for GPO, and edited
> them with the MMC plug in on a Vista machine.
>
> I have set up the Vista machine, joined it to the network, and then
> logged in as a pupil. The first time the pupil logs in, the desktop
> lockdown GPO objects all apply and the computer works as expected.
> However, if that pupil logs into the same machine again, the GPO is no
> longer applied. Which is very odd.
>
> Any suggestions or advice gratefully received before it drives me
> completely mad!

I'd check in the event logs - and rsop.msc - and then post a new message to
the Group Policy NG for the most expert help, providing updated info. I
don't use Vista (ptui!) yet, thankfully, so I'm not sure what to tell you,
but I think you have to do some updates in W2003 to get Vista-specific stuff
to load.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve

OT, but you might want to consider using a news client, such as Forte Agent,
Thunderbird, or even Outlook Express, rather than the pretty clunky web
interface to the newsgroups. It's a lot easier to do nearly everything that
way. You can mark messages to be watched, filter the views so you can see
replies to your posts easily, and search.

The Microsoft public news server is msnews.microsoft.com and you can
subscribe to as many groups as you like; no authentication is required.

The following is from a post by MVP Malke ...

-------------------------------------------------------
Here's information on Usenet and using a newsreader:

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page3.html#12-09-02 - a brief
explanation of newsgroups
http://michaelstevenstech.com/outlo...ssnewreader.htm
http://rickrogers.org/setupoe.htm
http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...wto/default.asp
- Set Up Newsreader

http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
http://aumha.org/nntp.htm - list of MS newsgroups
microsoft.public.test.here - MS group to test if your newsreader is
working properly
http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm - how to munge email address
http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm - multiposting vs.
crossposting

Some newsreaders for Windows
http://www.forteinc.com/agent/index.php - for Forte
http://www.mozilla.org (Thunderbird does newsgroups)
http://gravity.tbates.org/

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