Bit of a stange one here, Im trying to upgrade the gp administrative
templates on our Win2k DC for XP SP2 support (mainly for Windows Firewall),
Now I have forced the upgrade and have checked the adm files in the SYSVOL
and in the Group Policy Add Remove templates function, they are up to date
and running the versions they should be...

However, Opening the GP editor and navagating to Computer Configuration >
Administrative Templates The XP functionatly is not there, for instance in
the network folder I should have the Network Connections Folder with the
Windows Firewall settings.

Anyone have any ideas?

Howdie!

PKing-Fisher wrote:
> However, Opening the GP editor and navagating to Computer Configuration >
> Administrative Templates The XP functionatly is not there, for instance in
> the network folder I should have the Network Connections Folder with the
> Windows Firewall settings.

What does the Group Policy Editor look like?

Does this article help you?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555218

What were the exact steps of your ongoing upgrade so far?

cheers,

Florian
--
Nachwuschsadmin aus dem Süddeutschen/Germany.
eMail: Vorname [bei] frickelsoft [Punkt] net.
blog: http://www.frickelsoft.net/blog.

Howdie!

PKing-Fisher wrote:
> The policy editor only has in Admin Templates under Computer Configuartion
> Offline Folders and Network and dial up connections.
>
> I have tried registering the dll's specifically gptext.dll and the objects
> are still missing, I have also tried changing the filtering options so it
> shows all polcies to no avail

Right-clicking "Administrative Templates", choosing "Add/Remove ..." and
selecting the adm-Files in the %systemroot%\inf folder doesn't help either?

cheers,

Florian
--
Nachwuschsadmin aus dem Süddeutschen/Germany.
eMail: Vorname [bei] frickelsoft [Punkt] net.
blog: http://www.frickelsoft.net/blog.

Have you unchecked 'Only show policy settings that can be fully
managed' checkbox within Filtering?
PKing-Fisher wrote:
> Bit of a stange one here, Im trying to upgrade the gp administrative
> templates on our Win2k DC for XP SP2 support (mainly for Windows Firewall),
> Now I have forced the upgrade and have checked the adm files in the SYSVOL
> and in the Group Policy Add Remove templates function, they are up to date
> and running the versions they should be...
>
> However, Opening the GP editor and navagating to Computer Configuration >
> Administrative Templates The XP functionatly is not there, for instance in
> the network folder I should have the Network Connections Folder with the
> Windows Firewall settings.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?