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Restrictive Group Policy Accidentally Applied to Administrator, How Do I Recover?

Asked by wwarby in Active Directory, Windows 2003 Server

Tags: group policy, active directory, gpo gpedit

HELP! I have created a very restrictive group policy on my Windows 2003 server and applied it at the domain level with the intention that it would only apply to terminal services users. I've got it wrong and it's applied itself to all accounts including the Administrator. The only rope I have is that I had the "Active Directory Users and Computers" application open before the policy got applied and I still have it open - I can't open a second instance of it due to the policy so I daren't close the one I have open. This is a production application server - I can't rebuild it and it would be a serious problem even to have to restore last night's backup. Is there any way I can revert the mess I've just made for myself? The console login and Remote Desktop as Administrator are both affected and I pretty much can't open anything - no access to the C: drive, no access to run anything but approved programs.

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Restrictive Group Policy Accidentally Applied to Administrator, How Do I Recover?

Asked by wwarby in Active Directory, Windows 2003 Server

Tags: group policy, active directory, gpo gpedit

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