We had a message defined in the GP " message text for users attempting
to log on ". It worked fine but we now have a new way to present the
banner we want to.

So I disabled the policy and now it is 'not defined'. BUT it is still
coming up on PC's a few days later after they have been restarted
etc... XP is the client and 2000 is the Server.

I remember someone telling me that group policies are like that
sometimes in that they will apply, but then its sometimes hard to
unapply some settings - it should un-apply, it just doesn't for some
reason and you jsut have to deal with it? true / false? Can I get this
text off my clients and how.

I have also checked to see if the policy was defined in any other
policies and it is not.

Hope someone can help,

regards

Scott Bradley

Scott,

Without quickly doing this myself... I am fairly sure that if you blank out
both "text" and "title", it will not show up. If you were to go in manually,
all you would do is remove the Registry value data, so this is in essence
doing the same thing.
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Derek Melber
BrainCore.Net
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"Scott Bradley" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> We had a message defined in the GP " message text for users attempting
> to log on ". It worked fine but we now have a new way to present the
> banner we want to.
>
> So I disabled the policy and now it is 'not defined'. BUT it is still
> coming up on PC's a few days later after they have been restarted
> etc... XP is the client and 2000 is the Server.
>
> I remember someone telling me that group policies are like that
> sometimes in that they will apply, but then its sometimes hard to
> unapply some settings - it should un-apply, it just doesn't for some
> reason and you jsut have to deal with it? true / false? Can I get this
> text off my clients and how.
>
> I have also checked to see if the policy was defined in any other
> policies and it is not.
>
> Hope someone can help,
>
> regards
>
> Scott Bradley

Your comments above sent me on the right track. There is two ways I
can go. Either go to a machine that is still getting the logon banner
coming up. And do a search in the registry for some unique word in the
logon banner to find where its located.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\system]
"legalnoticecaption"=""
"legalnoticetext"=""

Then you can go to FILE / EXPORT KEY. then open up the registry key
and take out the text in the " ". then save it and double click on the
reg file and re-enter it into the registry - problem fixed. Then you
can run this under a logon script.

Alternatively I haven't yet made sure this works as yet, but I am
fairly sure it will. I just went into the group policy I had disabled
and reenabled the policy but didn't put any text into either box.
Should work.

Won't write back if it doesn't. I will just do the first option if it
doesn't.

Cheers for the help,

Scott




"Derek Melber [MVP]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed)>...
> Scott,
>
> Without quickly doing this myself... I am fairly sure that if you blank out
> both "text" and "title", it will not show up. If you were to go in manually,
> all you would do is remove the Registry value data, so this is in essence
> doing the same thing.
> --
> Derek Melber
> BrainCore.Net
> (E-Mail Removed)
> "Scott Bradley" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > We had a message defined in the GP " message text for users attempting
> > to log on ". It worked fine but we now have a new way to present the
> > banner we want to.
> >
> > So I disabled the policy and now it is 'not defined'. BUT it is still
> > coming up on PC's a few days later after they have been restarted
> > etc... XP is the client and 2000 is the Server.
> >
> > I remember someone telling me that group policies are like that
> > sometimes in that they will apply, but then its sometimes hard to
> > unapply some settings - it should un-apply, it just doesn't for some
> > reason and you jsut have to deal with it? true / false? Can I get this
> > text off my clients and how.
> >
> > I have also checked to see if the policy was defined in any other
> > policies and it is not.
> >
> > Hope someone can help,
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Scott Bradley