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Remote shutdown won't work after SP2

I use a simple script (batch file) to shutdown the computers on our LAN:

SHUTDOWN -S -M \\LAB2
SHUTDOWN -S -M \\LAB3
SHUTDOWN -S -M \\LAB4

After we upgraded to SP2, this won't work anymore. Anybody have any idea what we need to do?

Thanks!

--Mark

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elklabone

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I don't see a windows firewall option available in the group policy managment tool. Do I need to update something on my Windows 2003 Server?

onesquin

Did you access the policy from an XP SP2 machine?? If you do it will automatically update the templates from the SP2 machine. Until then, you will only have the server 2003 templates

elklabone

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OK, I'm an idiot. I've been running the Group Policy Editor on our 2003 server via Windows Remote Desktop Connection.

I tried doing Start...Run and GPEDIT.MSC, and this does bring up the local policy editor, but the server still doesn't show the new options even after I've run GPEDIT.MSC locally. Do I need to connect to the policy on the server remotely somehow?

-Mark

onesquin

you need to edit a policy from users and computers.

right click on the desired ou, click properties and click the policy tab. that should add them

elklabone

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I found it, you have to ...

Updating Your Group Policy Objects With the New Windows Firewall Settings

To update your Group Policy objects for network environments using Active Directory and Windows XP SP1, it is recommended that you use the Group Policy Management Console, a free download available from Microsoft. For more information, see Group Policy Management Console with Service Pack 1.

To update your Active Directory Group Policy objects with the new Windows Firewall settings using the Group Policy snap-in (provided with Windows XP SP2), do the following:

http://www.its.uiowa.edu/spa/ecm/WinXP/UpdateSP2GPO.doc