GPO Creation oddity... please help

[Guest]

I have a GPO for my laptop users in one location. From Active Directory
Users and Computers I right click on my OU goto properties choose Group
policy and then edit on my current group policy.

Then on the policy I click Computer Configuration/Administrative
Templates/windows Components and I am presented with this list:
NetMeeting
Internet Explorer
Application Compatibility
Event Viewer
Internet Information Services
Security Center
Task Scheduler
Terminal Services
Windows Explorer
Windows Installer
Windows Messenger
Windows Media Digital Rights Management
Windows Movie Maker
Windows Update
Windows Media Player

When I create a new GPO and go to the same location I am presented with this
list:
NetMeeting
Internet Explorer
Task Scheduler
Windows Installer

What gives? The first GPO (one with all the junk in it) seems to be
applicable to Win XP clients and the second one not so much. I am at a loss.
Thanks

 

[Judith Herman \(MSFT\)]

Do you know if the workstation you are using to administrate or create new
GPOs has been updated to the latest XP SP2 .adm files? If not, then that
may be causing the discrepancy if somone with the latest XP SP2 .adm files
has edited the laptop GPO.

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Judith Herman
Microsoft Corporation
Server User Assistance - Group Policy
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[Guest]

I was RDPed into the server - there was a time that I did edit a gpo from a
xpsp2 machine. I am still stumped

 

[Judith Herman \(MSFT\)]

I'm assuming your server is either a W2K or W2K3 machine (without SP1)? When
a GPO is created and opened for editing, the .adm files located in the
%systemroot%\inf directory of the machine you are editing the GPO, will be
used to create the administrative template UI display. To see the latest set
of policies for the administrative template node, you have to copy the
latest set of .adm files to the machine you are going to administrate on.

Best way to get the XP SP2 .adm files on your administrative machines is to
copy the *.adm files from an existing XP SP2 machine.

Once you've put the XP SP2 .adm files on your W2K or W2K3 (or XP prior to
SP2) machines, you'll need the hotfix to deal with the "string too long"
error messages: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=842933

For a document that walks you through a procedure for handling the XP SP2
..adm files see:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/mangxpsp2/mngdepgp.mspx


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Judith Herman
Microsoft Corporation
Server User Assistance - Group Policy
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This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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[Guest]

Thank you - I did find this useful and also realize how my policies came to
be this way. The GPMC tool... I edited some GPOs while using that to verify
changes to GPOs.

Thank you.