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Are you sure its a group policy thing? Maybe the server is not allowed to access the internet. Could be a restriction on a proxy or firewall.
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Are you sure its a group policy thing? Maybe the server is not allowed to access the internet. Could be a restriction on a proxy or firewall.

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there isn't a proxy and there is no restrictions on the firewall<br />
It seems to be related to the servers only<br />
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Hence we need to reset and policys or security settings that may have been applied 
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there isn't a proxy and there is no restrictions on the firewall
It seems to be related to the servers only

Hence we need to reset and policys or security settings that may have been applied

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We have an exchange 2003 server that has some kind of security restrictions applied that are stopping Sophos updates from being downloaded from thier web site.<br />
A previous administrator applied these and we have no record!!<br />
If we block inheritance on the group policy's it lifts restrictions such as ie settings but we still can't download the updates.<br />
We can from PC's on the same network.<br />
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Any idea how we can set the server back to its default settings.
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We have an exchange 2003 server that has some kind of security restrictions applied that are stopping Sophos updates from being downloaded from thier web site.
A previous administrator applied these and we have no record!!
If we block inheritance on the group policy's it lifts restrictions such as ie settings but we still can't download the updates.
We can from PC's on the same network.

Any idea how we can set the server back to its default settings.

Removing server 2003 security / policy settings

The Microsoft Server topic includes all of the legacy versions of the operating system, including the Windows NT 3.1, NT 3.5, NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 and Windows Home Server versions.

Microsoft Server OS

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).