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Group Policy User Configuration Settings not being applied

I have a new Windows 2008 R2 DC in place and I am trying to configure a GPO to map drives and printers under User Configuration->Preferences. None of the drives and printers are being mapped for some reason. I ran a gpresult and at the very bottom of the report where it says "User Configuration" it says no settings defined. I can see where many settings were applied under the Computer Configuration portion of the very same GPO.

We are in the process of migrating from a Windows 2003 R2 Domain Controller. I'm not sure if that would make a difference or not. Please let me know if you need any more information in order to assist me.

Mike Kline

What is the OS the users are using for their desktops? Where is the GPO linked?

Thanks

Mike

Rob Sanders

ASKER

The users are using Windows 7 64. The GPO is linked to an OU that contains the workstation.

X Layer

Well you must have GPO linked to OU with users to.

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Rob Sanders

ASKER

I don't believe loopback processing is enabled (I didn't intentionally enable it). If I put a user in that OU, then yes, it does in fact work. However, I don't want to have the users in the same OU as the workstations and I want to apply these drive mappings on a workstation by workstation basis.

Mike Kline

Then you would need to enable/test loopback or look at some of the item level targeting options to see if they can help.

Thanks

Mike

Rob Sanders

ASKER

This was the answer. It was the loopback processing that I needed to configure. Here is an article that I referenced that helped a little too:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=231287

Mike Kline

Glad to help and nice work!