Andy-
That is a bit strange since on those Win2K machines, even if they are
picking the NT 4 policy, it should be overridden by the Group Policy. The
only thing I can think of is that the NT 4 policy puts the banner text into
a different reg key than the Group Policy and that that reg key is somehow
taking precedence. Can you confirm that the reg locations are the same for
both policies (by looking in the adm files for each)?
One alternative that should work is to tell Win2k to completely ignore
system policy. In the old days, I did this by modifying the registry on the
client as follows. Under the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Update key on a Win2K
machine, change the value of UpdateMode from 1 to 0.
Darren
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"Andy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi Darren,
> Thanks for your reply. I don't think the link provides me with an
> answer.
> Basically we DID have a NT domain and an AD in a trust, the NT domain is
> no
> longer and the trust is removed.
>
> These 2000 PC's are newly built, so know nothing of the old infrastructure
> (so they cannot have been tattooed by the old NT domain Policy)
>
> Here is an example, I had to implement a banner for all users that log in.
> I have set the banner in Group policy, so the XP PC's (and supposedly 2000
> PC's) get it
> I wanted to do the same in Poledit for the NT PC's. The trouble was the in
> Poledit you are limited to the number of characters in the banner, so I
> had
> to write a shorter one. The .pol file is in the netlogon share of all
> DC's.
> For some reason the 2000 PC's are getting the shorter message from the
> poledit policy instead of the one I specified in group policy.
>
> Basically I want the 2000 PC's to ignore the .pol file in the netlogon
> share
> of the DC's and only process Group Policy.
>
>
> Thanks again
>
> Andy
>
> "Darren Mar-Elia (MVP)" wrote:
>
>> Andy-
>>
>> Does this article help?
>> http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;258691
>>
>> Darren
>>
>> --
>> Darren Mar-Elia
>> MS-MVP-Windows Server--Group Policy
>> Check out http://www.gpoguy.com -- The Windows Group Policy Information
>> Hub:
>> FAQs, Whitepapers and Utilities for all things Group Policy-related
>> Just Released! The new Windows Group Policy Guide from Microsoft
>> Press!!!
>> Check it out at http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/8763.asp
>>
>> "Andy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:20D64682-A26C-48FA-89CF-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> > Hello all,
>> > I am hoping someone can help me.
>> > I have an AD with 2000, XP and NT Clients
>> > I have created group policy to managed the 2000 and XP clients
>> > and created a poledit policy to manage to NT clients.
>> >
>> > I have found that for some reason, some of the 2000 clients are picking
>> > up
>> > the poledit policy instead of the group policy, or, they are picking up
>> > settings from both.
>> >
>> > Do you know how I can stop this from happening so that the 2000 clients
>> > apply group policy and not the poledit policy?
>> >
>> > Many Thanks
>> >
>> >
>> > Andy
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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