Flaky Group Policy

[Richard Curley]

I have a Group Policy named Display that seems to come and go. It is a user
policy that enforces a screen saver that locks after 7 minutes of
inactivity. My problem is that the policy will sometimes work and sometimes
not - on the same machine. If I do a GPRESULT /U /V when it is not working
I get:

The following settings were applied from: Display

When it is working I get:

The following settings were applied from: Display

KeyName: Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Control
Panel\Desktop
ValueName: ScreenSaveActive
ValueType: REG_SZ
Value: 1

KeyName: Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Control
Panel\Desktop
ValueName: ScreenSaverIsSecure
ValueType: REG_SZ
Value: 1

KeyName: Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Control
Panel\Desktop
ValueName: ScreenSaveTimeOut
ValueType: REG_SZ
Value: 420

KeyName: Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Control
Panel\Desktop
ValueName: SCRNSAVE.EXE
ValueType: REG_SZ
Value: ssstars.scr

Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks, Rich.

 

[stevta [MSFT]]

Try userenv debug logging to track down exactly what is happening during
the application of your policies.

Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Value: UserEnvDebugLevel
Value Type: REG_DWORD

Value Data: 10002 (Hex)

UserEnvDebugLevel can have the following
values:



NONE 0x00000000

NORMAL 0x00000001

VERBOSE 0x00000002

LOGFILE 0x00010000

DEBUGGER 0x00020000


The default value is NORMAL|LOGFILE (0x00010001).

Note To disable logging, select NONE (where the value is 0X00000000).