Group polices not getting implemented on XP professional

[Guest]

We have half of the machines windows XP professional & half as windows 2000
server & professional. Now if we implement group polices on both through
windows 2000 advance server. Polices get implemented on 2000 server &
professional but not getting on XP professional.
Any suggetions will be appreciated...

 

[Harj]

Hi,

Well are there any errors in the event log on these XP machines that
will give you some more information?
Take a look at the following article to see if this might be the cause
of your issue.

Description of the Windows XP Professional Fast Logon Optimization
feature

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q305293/

Good luck

Harj Singh
Power Your Active Directory Investment
www.specopssoft.com

 

[Guest]

thx Harj,
well i have checked event log we got following error
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Userenv
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1030
Date: 7/26/2006
Time: 7:19:14 PM
User: CVLXPUNE\nirmalp
Computer: NIRMALP
Description:
Windows cannot query for the list of Group Policy objects. A message that
describes the reason for this was previously logged by the policy engine.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

For link you had send i checked but haven't found that ploicy in computer
configuration. (Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Logon\
Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon)

Please help us!!
--
Tahnks & Regards
Datta

Hi,

Well are there any errors in the event log on these XP machines that
will give you some more information?
Take a look at the following article to see if this might be the cause
of your issue.

Description of the Windows XP Professional Fast Logon Optimization
feature

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q305293/

Good luck

Harj Singh
Power Your Active Directory Investment
www.specopssoft.com

 

[Harj]

Hi,

This setting should be found on the XP machine under the local policy.
If you have a W2K domain follow the link below to upgrade your policies
as this is new setting.

Upgrading Windows 2000 Group Policy for Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307900


Some other recommendations in regards to this (from newsgroup posts) is
to verify that:
- DFS service on all DCs is started and set to "Automatic"
- there are no FRS issues - (if there are, toubleshoot those first)
- TCP/IP Netbios Helper service is started and set to "Automatic"
- the "Everyone" has the "bypass traverse checking" user right
on the default domain controller policy
- the antivirus (if installed) is not scanning the sysvol or
subfolders, if so, exclude it
- consider that the error description in event id 1058 ("network path
not found" or "access denied") is caused by different problems and have
different solutions.

Are the XP machines receiving any 1058 errors with the 1030 errors?
If so look at the following article

Group policies are not applied the way you expect; "Event ID 1058" and
"Event ID 1030" errors in the application log
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314494/en-us

Good luck

Harj Singh
Power Your Active Directory Investment
www.specopssoft.com

thx Harj,
well i have checked event log we got following error
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Userenv
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1030
Date: 7/26/2006
Time: 7:19:14 PM
User: CVLXPUNE\nirmalp
Computer: NIRMALP
Description:
Windows cannot query for the list of Group Policy objects. A message that
describes the reason for this was previously logged by the policy engine.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

For link you had send i checked but haven't found that ploicy in computer
configuration. (Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Logon\
Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon)

Please help us!!

 

[Guest]

Harj,
I have tried the things but still not getting policies on clients, how much
time is required to refresh the GP or can i update ?

 

[Harj]

Hi,

Well you can always update the group policies on the machines by
running gpupdate /force on the client machines.
Group Policy for computers is triggered at computer startup. For users,
Group Policy is triggered when they log on. Versions of Windows before
Windows XP as well as Windows Server 2003 use synchronous processing,
meaning that computer Group Policy is completed before the logon dialog
box is presented. User Group Policy is completed before the shell is
active and available for the user to interact with it. Windows XP
defaults to asynchronous policy processing. By default, Group Policy is
refreshed every 90 minutes with a randomized delay of up to 30 minutes,
for a total maximum refresh interval of up to 120 minutes. This
interval can be changed using the computer policy setting Group Policy
refresh interval for Computer located in the Computer
Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Group Policy namespace.

Have you enabled userenv logging to see if you can find the reason via
the logs?

How to enable user environment debug logging
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/221833/

We released a free tool a few months ago that gives you the power to
perform
gpupdate, start ups or shut downs of computers through Active Directory

Users and Computers remotely. We would love if you tried the tool
called Specops
Gpupdate and came with feedback to us on how to further improve it. We
have developed this tool to make your job as an admin as easy as
possible.


Here is the link to the product page where you can download Specops
Gpupdate:
http://www.specopssoft.com/products/specopsgpupdate/default.asp


Harj Singh
"Power Your Active Directory Investment"
www.specopssoft.com


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