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Reversing Group Policy settings for Internet Explorer 11

Hello

I am attempting to reverse a group of Internet Explorer settings applied through Group Policy

All settings were applied through one policy that was applied against a specific OU.
IN this OU were two further OUs containing the user accounts and computer accounts.

I have moved two of each of the computer and user accounts to a new OU in the root of AD.
I have enabled Block Inheritance on the new OU.

The RSOP report shows no policies are applied but Internet Explorer still has the following issues:

In the security tab the message Some Settings are managed by the System Administrator

Cant add or subtract from the trusted sites list

All advanced settings are greyed out

Reset internet Explorer settings button is greyed out

]In the advanced tab the message Some Settings are managed by the System Administrator

The OS is Windows 7 Enterprise
Browser is IE11
DC is Windows 2008 R2 Datacenter

Any ideas how I reverse these settings back to default?
I want to apply new settings but not through AD Group Policy

Thanks

TD

Lior Karasenti

Did you try to run "gpupdate /force" on the workstations?

Tristan

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Multiple times with no errors

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Brian Pierce

As @Mahesh says - to reverse the policy you must reverse the settings - setting them to 'not configured', or removing the policy is not enough as the values are tattooed in the registry.

Tristan

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Hi
Thanks guys.

I will try this out and report back

TD

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I've requested that this question be deleted for the following reason:

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Basic knowledge of group policy application confirms that my original answer was correct, as confirmed by additional experts.

Additional information not required to confirm answer.

Tristan

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That was it .

Thanks Blue and Mahesh

kathyakh

Thank you Experts! I feel like I just found the Holy Grail. This is great information for us newbies to GPO.