legal caption / security template

[Graham Turner]

we are attempting to set the policy for the legal caption defined by the
"messagetext .." policy value using a GPO set on the domain controllers
container

the security settings that this policy object define are imported from a
security template file.

the observed behaviour is the truncation of the text entered into the
security template file

the truncation is midway through a word so it does not look to be an issue
of it being delimited on a special character.

the DC's processing the GPO are at Windows 2000 / SP3

any one else found this / have workaround

GT

 

[Vsevolod Titov [MSFT]]

Doesn't the help file for this setting explain this issue? This is the
relevant excerpt from the help:

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Windows XP and the Windows Server 2003 family add support for configuring
logon banners that can exceed 512 characters in length and that can also
contain carriage-return line-feed sequences. However, Windows 2000 clients
cannot interpret and display message text that is created by computers
running Windows XP or the Windows Server 2003 family. You must use a Windows
2000 computer to create a logon message policy that applies to Windows 2000
computers. If you inadvertently create a logon message policy using a
computer running Windows XP Professional or the Windows Server 2003 family,
and you discover that it does not display properly on Windows 2000
computers, do the following:
a.. Undefine the setting.
b.. Redefine the setting using a Windows 2000 computer.
Simply changing a Windows XP Professional or a Windows Server 2003
family-defined logon message policy using a Windows 2000 computer does not
work. The setting must be undefined first.