Windows 2000 AD, Windows XP clients

[Andrew Story]

Hi,

Is it possible to have an updated set of GPO's with the extra features for
XPSP2 machines, and not wipe out my current GPO's for Windows 2000 machines?

Can this be done with one set of policies for both win2k and xp? Can this
be accomplished without wiping out my current GPO's.

 

[Norbert Fehlauer [MVP]]

Andrew Story wrote:
Hi,

Is it possible to have an updated set of GPO's with the extra
features for XPSP2 machines, and not wipe out my current GPO's for
Windows 2000 machines?

The XP adms are a superset of W2k adms. So you won't wipe out anything.

Can this be done with one set of policies for both win2k and xp?

Yes. Just use a XP PC to administer your GPOs with the install of GPMC
(download at Microsoft)

Can this be accomplished without wiping out my current GPO's.

See above.

HTH
Norbert

 

[Andrew Story]

Hi - thanks for the reply. Does this have to be done with an XP machine or
can the policies be uploaded to a Win2k DC and administered from there with
GPMC? Does it change the existing poilicies to a newer version?

 

[Norbert Fehlauer [MVP]]

Andrew Story wrote:
Hi,

Hi - thanks for the reply. Does this have to be done with an XP
machine or can the policies be uploaded to a Win2k DC and
administered from there with GPMC? Does it change the existing
poilicies to a newer version?

Hi you can administer with W2k but you cannot install the GPMC on W2k. You
will not see all XP policies as W2k is older. So I strongly suggest you get
a XP Workstation as Admin-PC.
Your existing GPOs will be updated with the newer adms of XP. It won't
change any setting within the GPOs.

Take a look here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307900/en-us But really use the GPMC, you
will never wanna work without it.

HTH
Norbert

 

[Andrew Story]

Hi Norbet, thanks again.

One last question, I used an XP machine to open a test policy. When I also
opened this policy on a Win2k DC I had lots of Windows appear with errors
regarding the policy being truncated etc.

Is this normal behaviour, or have I missed something/done something wrong
would you think?

Thanks for your help, Andy

 

[Norbert Fehlauer [MVP]]

Andrew Story wrote:
Hi,

One last question, I used an XP machine to open a test policy. When
I also opened this policy on a Win2k DC I had lots of Windows appear
with errors regarding the policy being truncated etc.

Is this normal behaviour, or have I missed something/done something
wrong would you think?

It's normal and you missed the patch.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=842933

Just install it on your DC and all will be fine.

HTH
Norbert

 

[Andrew Story]

AH-ha!

Thanks for all your help Norbet, much appreciated.