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Group Policy - Remove Clock - Put it back
Yesterday, I put on a policy on a few OU's that gets rid of the clock. I need to put it back. I removed the policy that I set up yesterday - but people still do not have their clocks. I tried rebooting - gpupdate. I had already replicated all of our servers. It has been a few hours. How can I give them their clocks back.
I also put on a new policy in the mean time that resricts access to the clock - they can see it, but not make any changes. This is a machine policy - Windows - Security - local policy - Restricted Change system time to only administrators. But this should have no affect on the above. The users need to see their clocks. They are about to riot.
I also put on a new policy in the mean time that resricts access to the clock - they can see it, but not make any changes. This is a machine policy - Windows - Security - local policy - Restricted Change system time to only administrators. But this should have no affect on the above. The users need to see their clocks. They are about to riot.
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They have rebooted - many times. We have a few 2000 DC's and 1 2003 DC. They still do not have their clocks. It is very strange because some of them have it (I don't think they restarted) and most do not.
on your xp clients run gpupdate from command line to get the latest copy of their GPO information
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I did. I have checked the registry and it looks like the hide clock restriction is gone - yet the clock does not appear. Why is it not appearing?
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When I log in as myself (domain admin) - the clock appears.
log in as a user,, run gpresult,,,, is the GPO where the clock allow/deny being appliied?
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I did - No, it is not being applied. Say there are 2 users. User A and user B. user A logged into comuter A this morning. User B logged in computer B this morning. They are both part of the same OU with the same permissions. They both do not have the system clock. Now - after we removed the policy - When they log on to their own computers - they still do not have the system clock. But when they log into each others computers - they have access to the system clock. It seems as though there is some configuration stuck in their registry. But I have searched the registry exhaustively and have been unable to come up with anything.
i understand that the clock isn't there on some but is on others,, but by looking at the result of GPUPDATE are the GPOs being applied consistant between the computers?? dont look at the clock to find this out,, look at the result of GPUPDATE
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I have looked in the results and the GPO's are being applied consistently. No Policy for the clock is being applied to any computer. You mean the gpresult. I am using the resultant set of policu MMC snap in.
The problem is that you do not have a policy to reverse what you did, you need a new policy to say "enable clock" to reset the registry to the correct setting, by just removing the policy wont help as the registry has already been set and you need something to counter it saying the exact opposite.
If you leave a new policy as unspecified on the clock it will leave the orginial disabled setting in the registry set, you need to have one saying enable to undo it.
then run secedit (win 2k) or gpupdate (win xp) to force the policy o apply quicker.
Hope it helps this should sort it out.
If you leave a new policy as unspecified on the clock it will leave the orginial disabled setting in the registry set, you need to have one saying enable to undo it.
then run secedit (win 2k) or gpupdate (win xp) to force the policy o apply quicker.
Hope it helps this should sort it out.
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There is no policy (that I know of that) does that. What is "the orginial disabled setting in the registry set" ? I have looked through the registry and for each policy that is there - there is a registry setting. There is no policy there for the clock so there should be no problem. My problem is that there seems to be nothing to undo in the registry. What you (ColinRoyds) are suggestion seems to not be true - unless you could tell me a specific registry setting.
I do not the know the excat registry setting and to be honest I am not going to look (sorry not trying to be difficult), but the general principle remains the same, you need a policy to undo what the original one did.
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Do you have more than 1 DC?
Have the users rebooted thier computers?