Graham- Yes, the source, or default focus for GP Editor is always the PDC emulator DC unless you change that explicitly or the PDCe is not available. In terms of best practice, if you really want to control the willy-nilly updating of ADMs from local machines, I would recommend enabling the policy under User Config\Admin Templates\System\Group Policy\Turn off Automatic Update of ADM Files for all users. By doing that, the "copy up from c:\windows\inf if newer" behavior simply stops, and you have total control over what appears in the GPT.
Darren -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Graham Turner Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 9:43 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] ADM files / sysvol management Darren, thanks as always for helpful reply presumably the 'source' for the download will be that which GP editor uses (ie primarily the pdce) i think ?? surely the implication of the download from the DC sysvol is that from a 'version control' view is that it is 'best / better' working practice to DELETE (scary ??) a locally stored ADM files once the policy settings have been imported in to the GPO ?? GT > On 4/24/06, Darren Mar-Elia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Graham- >> GP Editor will always download the ADM files that already exist >> within the ADM folder in SYSVOL, unless there is a version of an >> existing ADM file on the local c:\windows\inf folder that is newer. > > > On an ... ahem... academic note.... > > At what point during the logon process does the GP editor check for this? > Could I craft my own ADM files (or create invalid or blank ones), and > use something like touch.exe to give them an up-to-the-minute > timestamp, and have those loaded instead of the ones the network > administrator had in mind? > > -- > AdamT > 'Thank-you for not requesting read receipts' > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
