In shocking news of the day (hardly), my memory is faulty. I couldn't find my request notes on this and should have kept quiet. Nonetheless, I believe I have pieced it together. We could not deploy SP-3 through WSUS because we had a group of Dell computers that it would blow up (don't know why; different area). We did enable the CSE's through WSUS, but found it was not installed on any of the SP-2 computers. Further research revealed that the CSE's required XMLite, which was included in SP-3 (hence my SP-3 recollection), but not SP-2. Further, XMLite itself could not be deployed through WSUS. This link (http://blogs.technet.com/b/grouppolicy/archive/2009/03/27/group-policy- preferences-not-applying-on-some-clients-client-side-extension-xmllite.a spx) provided some info on how to go about getting XMLite deployed to those SP-2 boxen, so that the CSE could successfully install via WSUS on the SP-2 machines. I will crawl back in my hole now.
From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 11:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Are Group Police Preferences Extensions included in XP SP3? WSUS is HOW I deployed the CSE's As I recall, I had to click a checbox... <googling> For feature packs. Although a quick read suggests that it's been moved from feature packs to updates... On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Mayo, Bill <bem...@pittcountync.gov> wrote: Well, looking at the system requirements for the GPP CSE's, it shows XP SP-3 as a supported operating system. That would seem to suggest it is not included. It's been a while since I looked into that, but I think I remember my source of confusion now (reading some of the comments rang a bell). Microsoft didn't provide a way to either deploy the CSE's through WSUS or GPO (directly). There were ways to do it, but (IIRC) you had to have SP-3 for it to work without some extra assistance (XMLite, again if IIRC). I think that is the source of my confusion and earlier statement. From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 10:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Are Group Police Preferences Extensions included in XP SP3? That was mine, doesn't seem to ring true though as simple GPO's just to create a shortcut don't work on XP SP3 but do on Vista/Win7 etc. From: Mayo, Bill [mailto:bem...@pittcountync.gov] Sent: 28 April 2011 15:37 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Are Group Police Preferences Extensions included in XP SP3? My understanding is that you *either* need XP SP-3 or the GPP CSE's installed. In other words, I thought that the GPP CSE is part of SP-3. From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 10:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Are Group Police Preferences Extensions included in XP SP3? Yes, you need to install the extensions on XP to utilize GPP. For sure :-] From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 7:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Are Group Police Preferences Extensions included in XP SP3? Struggling to find for sure whether I need to install anything on machines with XP SP3 to be able to use Group Policy Preferences in Group Policies? Does anyone know for sure please? I keep seeing KB943729 mentioned. ________________________________ MIRA Ltd Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England Registered in England and Wales No. 402570 VAT Registration GB 100 1464 84 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and are solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you receive this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify us either by e-mail, telephone or fax. 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