basic question about gpo diasable

[Guest]

Im a little confused about the basics of gpos and reversing changes you have
made.

For example if I set the gpo policy " Remove clock from system tray" as
enabled

It gets removed.

Now I changed my mind and want people to see the clock again.

If i change it back to the default "not configured" It will stay not shown
on clients that have received the policy and any new clients that are added
to the domain will see the clock.

If I come back and select "disabled" Shouldn’t that force the clock to be
shown?


Is this correct.. anyone have any good links on how and what you do to
reverse your changes?

Thanks

 

[Jerold Schulman]

Im a little confused about the basics of gpos and reversing changes you have
made.

For example if I set the gpo policy " Remove clock from system tray" as
enabled

It gets removed.

Now I changed my mind and want people to see the clock again.

If i change it back to the default "not configured" It will stay not shown
on clients that have received the policy and any new clients that are added
to the domain will see the clock.

If I come back and select "disabled" Shouldn’t that force the clock to be
shown?


Is this correct.. anyone have any good links on how and what you do to
reverse your changes?

Thanks

The only policy I find that contains "Remove Clock" is:

system USER Administrative Templates\Start Menu and Taskbar Remove Clock from the system notification area At least Microsoft Windows XP Professional or Windows Server 2003 family Prevents the clock in the system notification
area from being displayed. If you enable this setting, the clock will not be displayed in the system notification area. If you disable or do not configure this setting, the default behavior of the clock appearing in the notification area
will occur. HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer!HideClock

 

[Guest]

yes this is what i gathered so far..by me just changing the settings.. The
question stated above is about what condition the clients are left in after
you make the initial change. and then want to set it to something different
latter. This question is not about a specific gpo but policy behavior when
changing back.

 

[Darren Mar-Elia]

What should happen is if you set it to not configured, then the policy
should be removed on the next foreground or background refresh, and the
clock should re-appear. After it setting it to not configured, you should do
a gpupdate (or seceidt on Win2K) on the machine and see if it appears. Some
types of shell changes require a re-logon but I suspect this one doesn't.
Setting it to disabled simply means that the user will not be able to remove
the clock from the system tray--that the option would be grayed out similar
to enabling it, but that it would always appear.

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Darren Mar-Elia
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