Centrally Manage SP2

[Enrique]

How can I manage many of the new features of XP SP2 from my Windows 2K3
Server through group policy? I figure it's just updating the .adm files but
I'm uncertain.

Thanks,
Enrique

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

How can I manage many of the new features of XP SP2 from my Windows 2K3
Server through group policy? I figure it's just updating the .adm files but
I'm uncertain.

Hi

Managing Windows XP Service Pack 2 Features Using Group Policy
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/mangxpsp2/mngintro.mspx

And the PolicySettings.xls available at
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...c0-19b9-4acc-b5be-9b7dab13108e&displaylang=en

For a list of Group Policy options for the WinXP SP2, see
WF_XPSP2.doc "Deploying Windows Firewall Settings for Microsoft
Windows XP with Service Pack 2":
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4454e0e1-61fa-447a-bdcd-499f73a637d1


If you have used a Windows XP SP2 computer to administer the Group
Policy settings in the domain, the adm files should automatically
have been updated.

Group Policy Template Behavior in Windows Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316977

I would think most things in the link above applies to Win2k as well.

Recommendations for managing Group Policy administrative
template (.adm) files
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816662

A discussion about it here:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group..._doneTitle=Back+to+Search&&d#130e4d93db7c9984

See here on how Jeff updated the Default Domain Policy templates when
they would not do it automatically:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group..._doneTitle=Back+to+Search&&d#fa468982fef80549


You can also download the latest .adm files from here:

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=31057

If you install the WinXP SP2 .adm files on the domain controller, but
you don't use WinXP SP2 to edit the GPO settings, you may you get the
message below, install the hotfix that is available in the KB article
in the link below to solve this.

"The following entry in the [strings] section is too long and has
been truncated" error message when you try to modify or to view GPOs
in Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Professional, or Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=842933

 

[Mike Kolitz]

You've got it right.