Robert, As a general rule, replacing ADM templates can be a problem if you already have some policies set since you can get left with "orphan" entries.
You can see this effect by setting a policy, then removing the ADM file. it looks like the policy is no longer set. If you then add the ADM template back again, the policy is shown as being active again. The same effect happens if you change the keys that control whether a policy is active or not. The safest way is to disable all the policies in the GPO, replace the ADM template, then reenable it. Alan C ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darren Mar-Elia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 10:15 AM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Upgrading W2K GPOs to XP GPOs (The KB Number would Help) > Robert- > I've seen this behavior too, and yes, manually adding the XP ADMs into a > GPO is safe. However, because XP is supposed to support this > automatically, you might want to check the following policy on your XP > machine that you're using to edit those GPOs: > User Configuration|Administrative Templates|System|Group Policy|Turn off > Automatic Update of ADM files to make sure this isn't enabled. > > Darren > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Toole > Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 1:46 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Upgrading W2K GPOs to XP GPOs (The KB Number > would Help) > > oops, > > KB 307900 > > Robert Toole > > Robert Toole wrote: > > I found a KB article to upgrade my W2K Group policies for XP, followed > > > it but it did not work. > > > > When I create a new GPO with an XP box, the new GPO also does not > > contain the settings for XP > > > > I found that I could get the extra XP settings into the GPO by > > overwriting the administrative templates with the ones from XP. > > > > My question is is this safe? or is there another way to do this? > > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
