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GPO setttings not being applied for IE7

I am getting ready to upgrade my environment to IE7 and in testing I have noticed that I can not apply GPO settings specifically for Internet, Local Intranet, Trusted, and Restricted sites. The GPO works fine for the test machines that still have IE6 installed, however, the IE7 machines will not take the settings. I have run a GPRESULT on the IE7 machines and it shows that the GPO has been applied for that user. I have the same user logged onto an IE6 machine as well as IE7 machine and the GPO works for the IE6 machine just not the IE7 machine.

Thank you for your time!

kamalgopi

you need to download the IE7 for the GPO and you need to import to the GPO so you can edit the settings there if you wanna apply for the user IE. please see the link below for more info on that.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=11ab3e81-6462-4fda-8ee5-fcb8264c44b1&displaylang=en

Hope this helps
CHeers:)
Kamal

FLTech

ASKER

Kamal,
Thanks for the reply, howver, I have already added the inetres.adm file to my GPMC.

kamalgopi

may be i can suggest try to remove the IE7 in any one of the PC which it is installed and then install the IE7 again and see and also do the IE 7 updates to see if the you still have the same issue.

Hope this helps
Cheers:)
Kamal

FLTech

ASKER

I brought up a new test box with IE6 on it and did not apply the GPO. Upgraded to IE7 and performed all the available updates. I moved the user into a test OU where the GPO for the local intranet/trusted sites is the only GPO being applied, however, same result. I checked the results of the GPO using RSoP and it does show the correct settings, but they are not being applied to IE??

FLTech

ASKER

Found a solution! It seems that Internet Explorer Policy processing is handled differently that other settings. The only time that Policy Processing takes place is after a chance to the Group Policy Object. To force it to update each time you must set the maintenance policy processing polcy:

Computer Configuration - Adminstrative Templates - System - Group Policy - Internet Explorer Maintenance policy processing.

Enable this setting and at a minimum also set check 'Process even if the Group Policy objects have not changed".

That worked for me!!

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