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8.6

Group Policy Editor causes SBS to hang indefinately

Asked by dominic_3112 in SBS Small Business Server, Active Directory, Windows 2003 Server

Tags: Microsoft, SBS 2003 R2

Hello,
I have had an issue for the last few days where after editing a group policy object (from GPO editor on the SBS server).
I try to apply the setting and the server just hangs.  I am using SBS 2003 SP2 R2, WSUS 2.0, WSS 2.0 .Net 2.0 etc....
I have only done two things prior to this occuring.  Apart from the antivirus software it is a clean install from scratch, there are no other third party apps.

1. Installed 2 new sticks of Kingston RAM 1GB each
Note: I have thouroughly tested the RAM with microsoft memory tester, and no problems.

2. Installed CA Internet Security (this is a single computer version, maybe not suh a good idea).

I don't know if they are related in any way but these are the only changes I have made prior to this issue occuring.

The problem does not occur when editing any particular group policy object.  In this most recent case I was editing a client group policy object --> Important URLs.  This same freeze has happened three times in the last couple of days, and while the policy settings I was changeing differed, the two error logs that occured just before the crash were  the same in each case.  See the attached code.
I need to roll this out soon so if anyone can help that would be great.
thanks,
Dominic 
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Errors that led to SBS hang:
 
Error 1.
Event Type:	Error
Event Source:	Userenv
Event Category:	None
Event ID:	1030
Date:		22/02/2008
Time:		1:54:58 AM
User:		NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer:	MYSRVRSRVR
Description:
Windows cannot query for the list of Group Policy objects. Check the event log for possible messages previously logged by the policy engine that describes the reason for this.
 
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
 
Error 2.
Windows cannot access the file gpt.ini for GPO cn={0BD7A923-591B-435D-8614-E9BC340DDEAB},
cn=policies,cn=system,DC=MYSRVR,DC=local. 
The file must be present at the location <\\MYSRVR.local\SysVol\MYSRVR.local\Policies\{0BD7A923-591B-435D-8614-E9BC340DDEAB}\gpt.ini>. 
(Configuration information could not be read from the domain controller, either because the machine is unavailable, or access has been denied. ). 
Group Policy processing aborted. 
 
These errors occured sequentially, one after the other in all three "Hang" cases.
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