Group Policy settings not working on XP machines
Ill try to throw out as much info as I can with the time that I have at the moment.
Basic rundown is this...
I came into a clients site having to reverse engineer a lot of things that were done here to try and understand what the previous group had done. Ive had only a little group policy experience before at another site but what I did worked just fine, but it was for Vista Business machines.
Here on this site we have tried to roll out several group policies and unless its a Win7 machine, they never work. We use them for printer deployment per pc rather than per user since users move from machine to machine throughout the day. As I said, if its 7, its fine. We have no problems with it, but XP refuses to accept any changes. I can create the policy in the workstation OU and do a gpupdate on the workstation and have it show that its applied if I run gpresult, but the settings never follow through. Weve done testing with several other types of settings in a GPO but nothing actually happens.
Ive also done testing where I move my Win7 pc over into that out and test the GPO and it works perfectly, but the rest of the XP machines in that OU just wont respond.
Am I missing something for the XP machines here?
And sorry if the post is a bit jumbled, quite a rush this morning.
Thanks
Basic rundown is this...
I came into a clients site having to reverse engineer a lot of things that were done here to try and understand what the previous group had done. Ive had only a little group policy experience before at another site but what I did worked just fine, but it was for Vista Business machines.
Here on this site we have tried to roll out several group policies and unless its a Win7 machine, they never work. We use them for printer deployment per pc rather than per user since users move from machine to machine throughout the day. As I said, if its 7, its fine. We have no problems with it, but XP refuses to accept any changes. I can create the policy in the workstation OU and do a gpupdate on the workstation and have it show that its applied if I run gpresult, but the settings never follow through. Weve done testing with several other types of settings in a GPO but nothing actually happens.
Ive also done testing where I move my Win7 pc over into that out and test the GPO and it works perfectly, but the rest of the XP machines in that OU just wont respond.
Am I missing something for the XP machines here?
And sorry if the post is a bit jumbled, quite a rush this morning.
Thanks
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That functionality doesn't work by default with Windows XP. Microsoft has a small executable that must be added to the logon script to make this work.
Check this link for more info and detailed information about how to make it work.
http://theintegrity.co.uk/2010/07/how-to-deploy-printers-with-group-policy-windows-server-2008-7-vista-xp/
Hope this helps.
Check this link for more info and detailed information about how to make it work.
http://theintegrity.co.uk/2010/07/how-to-deploy-printers-with-group-policy-windows-server-2008-7-vista-xp/
Hope this helps.
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Does that still apply if its Server 2003?
And aside from the current printer issue, does anyone have any ideas on why any of the other settings wouldnt be applying? I dont know that its really a problem with the printer more than just a problem with something stopping the GPO settings. It looks like the previous group had several GPOs in place, but it doesnt look like they are actually working either.
Wish I could just overhaul the entire lot of servers...
And aside from the current printer issue, does anyone have any ideas on why any of the other settings wouldnt be applying? I dont know that its really a problem with the printer more than just a problem with something stopping the GPO settings. It looks like the previous group had several GPOs in place, but it doesnt look like they are actually working either.
Wish I could just overhaul the entire lot of servers...
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Sorry guys, Ive been swamped with a multitude of other issues here at this site and havent had a chance to follow up with these new suggestions yet. Ill try to get to them ASAP and let you know the results.
Thanks
Thanks
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Ok, we got the push exe and deployed it to the server with the printer connections we wanted. I had to do a little cleanup and make a fresh GPO to get the settings to take effect. I guess an important lesson here is: When in doubt, nuke it and start over.
So thanks for all the information guys, I appreciate it.
So thanks for all the information guys, I appreciate it.
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Ill try and read through those links today, thanks!