First off, if you haven't done so already, you might want to post
this question to the Group Policy newsgroup:
http://support.microsoft.com/newsgr...rosoft.public.windows.group_policy&sloc=en-us
I've always found that the policies were applied to new users. I
just retested this to make sure I wasn't mistaken and when I
created a new user account that was a limited account the
policies were applied the first time they logged on.
Here's what I did.
Logged on with my account that is a member of the administrators
group.
Made sure that Simple File Sharing was disabled.
Ran gpedit.msc.
Enabled a few policies for test purposes.
Closed Local Group Policy.
Navigated to C:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy folder.
On the Security page, added the Administrators group with only
Deny Read checked. Did not make any changes to the permissions
for the Everyone group, which has, by default, Full Control.
Clicked OK.
In Control Panel -> User Accounts, created a new limited user and
a new computer administrator account.
Logged off my account and logged on with the new limited
account.
Policies were in effect.
Logged off the limited account and logged on with the new
administrator account.
Policies were not in effect.
When you ran your test did you make sure the new accounts were
not members of the Administrators group? Exactly what policies
are you trying to Enable? I wish I could be more helpful but I
can't recreate the problem you're having on my machine.
