I was just doing an audit, not trying to modify/add/delete. Like I said, not a huge deal.
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 18:58, Carl Houseman <c.house...@gmail.com> wrote: > Why aren't you using Group Policy Management (GPMC)? That's the tool > intended for editing group policies that are applied to OUs. You can run > that on a DC, member server, or workstation and it always looks at domain > policies. > > By default, gpedit.msc views and modifies the local machine policy. I don't > see a way to make gpedit.msc access a domain policy or machine policy on any > other machine, because that's not its intended function. > > And you lost me when you talked about invoking gpedit.msc from ADU&C. > Editing group policies is not a function of ADU&C. > > Carl > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 5:24 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Reviewing my GPs, and found something I don't understand > > Minor issue, but it caused me to fumble for a few minutes.... > > I was looking over my Group Policies, and couldn't find them. > > I tracked it down, but need some help understanding what I was looking at. > > Win2k3 R2 domain, FFL/DFL. > > I started gpedit.msc via Start/Run on my XP SP3 workstation, and > started hunting for my DisableAutoplay GP, which I show as being > linked to my Workstation OU. I just couldn't see it anywhere, despite > going back to the MSFT KB article - 967715. > > I finally logged into my DC, and gpedit.msc showed the GP exactly as > expected. I then went back to ADUC on my workstation, and invoked > Properties on the OU in question, and it gave me a version of > gpedit.msc that was connected to the domain, as expected. > > It's obvious that my local copy of gpedit.msc is pointing to my local > machine (if I start it from Start/Run), but if invoked from ADUC it > works as expected. > > Can anyone enlighten me on this difference? > > Kurt > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
