WIN2k AS Help!!! - Group Policies not applying?

[mixmastermike]

Hello! I'm setting up a win2k pro lab at my school (yes, it's all legit) I've got all the accounts down and stuff and everything is well, EXCEPT that my group policies aren't being implemented. At first I wanted to use them to deploy MSI apps to computers (and i still want that function), however even though they were set up, they didn't install on the computer. Next, I tried playing with user settings in the GP, and those also didn't show up.

I don't know if this is important, but on each computer's event viewer, there is an error 1722?

FYI, the DHCP is somewhere else in the network, as is the Gateway and DNS Servers

My server is just the domain controller. It is DHCP'ing for an IP as well.

ANY ideas guys? If you have any question, post and/or PM me and/or e-mail me!

Thank you very much!

Michael

 

[NicColt]

>the DHCP is somewhere else in the network

well dude if I understand what you doing, if the DHCP is elsewhere then you must be connecting to a domain and that domain will overide your local GP's no matte what you do.

 

[PeeluckyDuckee]

my question to you would be is your testbed network isolated from the rest of the school network? Do the users belong to the OU where you applied the GPO? What are the specifics of the software package deployment? Assigned to users/computers? Published to computer? Etc....

Also, once you configured the GPO on the server, you may have to reboot for those settings to take effect on the users/computers. Either that or do either or both of the following (depending on your software deployment policies) from the run command on the server machine:

secedit /refreshpolicy user_policy /enforce
secedit /refreshpolicy machine_policy /enforce

Have user log off and on machine too. Hope this helps.

Plucky