Link to home
Start Free TrialLog in
Avatar of kulisncc
kulisncc

asked on

Restricted Groups Policy NOT F-ing Working!!!

I have a Restricted Groups Policy and it adds the right groups to my workstations Local Administratros Group but it does not remove the users that I dont want in there. I thought that this is what it is supposed to do. What is going on here? Thanks
Avatar of arnold
arnold
Flag of United States of America image

This means that you did not setup the restricted groups in the form that you want.
You have
domain group is a member of builtin\administrators which means this is an append mechanism
For what you want to achieve the GPO should have
Administrators has the following members.
This will flush the builtin-administrators and will replace them with the members.
Prior to making this change, MAKE sure that this GPO does not apply to your Domain Controllers and make sure that domain admins , builtin/administrator, etc accounts are included in the restricted group setting or you will lock yourself out.
Avatar of kulisncc
kulisncc

ASKER

Okay, I think I understand what you were attempting to clarify above. I appreciate it nontheless though. I did in fact add the Domain Admins to the Restricted Groups policy and made them members of the Local Adminstrators group on each workstation. Are you saying that this configuration is supposed to flush the builtin\Administrators group? Because if that is the case then my GPO should be working. This is not the first time I have created these GPO's and I am not new to GPO's since I have been working with them for quite a few years now (10 years to be exact), but a Win 2K3 DC Global Catalog server went down before I started working with this employer and the last Network Admin simply shoved a Win 2K Server in its place as the acting DC (no Global Catalog). Within the next 3 months I am going to set up two new Dell PowerEdge R610's that I ordered as DC's but until then I just want to get this done. Could the fact that there is no Global Catalog server running be the reason why the builtin\Administrators group is not being flushed?Thanks.
ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION
Avatar of arnold
arnold
Flag of United States of America image

Link to home
membership
This solution is only available to members.
To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.
Start Free Trial
I got it. Thanks for your help.