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GPO problem

I have a Windows 2000 domain. I created a Group Policy called deploy to assign Office 2000 to 20 new workstations. I created the software distribution point using the setup.exe /a from the command line. It looks as if the sdp was succucessful because I see about 12 files including the *.msi file. I created a test ou for testing purposes. In that ou I added myself (administrator permissions) and my w2k pro workstation. I added the deploy gpo to the test ou. It looks as if everything should work, but when I log on to my client, I get nothing.

I then decided to create a gpo to remove search, run, and help from the start menu, for testing purposes. This didnt work on my client either. If I log into the server with this account, it removed my 3 items from the start menu. I must be overlooking something very simple, but I cant find it yet.

Any comments would be greatly appreciated.

R Gass

YarnoSG

did you apply the policy to the USER or the Machine? if you applied it to the MACHINE, did you enable the loopback?
{Policy | Computer Configuration | Administrative Templates | System | Group Policy | User Group Policy loopback processing mode (set to enabled)}

Then wait for replication.

r_gass

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I want to figure out why the start menu items are not being removed from the clients first. The start menu items can only be removed from the policy|user configuration| start menu and task bar. That gpo is applied to the user only.

Thanks

YarnoSG

Okay - You created a USER policy, but WHAT did you apply it to? A machine? then you need to use the loopback to make that USER policy affect the users of the MACHINE. It makes some sense in an insane way.

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r_gass

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Thanks for the suggestions. It was the dns. I new it was something simple. Statically put in our server as dns, and it took off. Thanks for the help!

wtrmk74

Glad it worked out

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wtrmk74