Group Policy Not Applying - Why????

[gavm99]

Hi all,

I will try to keep this as simply as possible.

I have a remote user policy and an internal user policy. Both set the IE home page to

http://www.google.co.uk

Users who are a member of the remote users group which means the remote user policy applies to them are not getting a homepage at all though. They just get

http:///

Even in the local machine registry it says

http://www.google.co.uk

for StartPage.

I have investigate permissions, used new users who are only a member of a new group I created with a new group policy but when I run gpresult it still tells me the remote policy applies.

Any ideas anyone, really running out of ideas here!!!

Thanks in advance.

 

[patstone]

Had a problem on site last year when users in a remote office were not getting GP, to resolve the problem I used the following ........

ENABLE Do not detect slow network connections in GP

In GP this is found at Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/System/User Profiles

Then

Modify the default user profile to include the registry value GroupPolicyMinTransferRate with DWORD value of "0":


A. Under "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System",
create a value named as GroupPolicyMinTransferRate and give the value data
0.


B. Under "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System",
create a value named as GroupPolicyMinTransferRate and give the value data
0.


C. Restart the client computer to take effect.

 

[gavm99]

Hi there,

Thank you for the advice. Regarding the registry keys, do you mean on the Server or on the Client PC???

I can't find the System entry on either under Windows?

Thanks.

 

[patstone]

Hey,

I made the change on the XP client only, are you getting errors in the clients event log ? When I had this problem it gave me an error code just after I logged on, cant remember the event id as it was over a year ago...

 

[gavm99]

Hi again,

Ok I will try that tomorrow, but now I'm starting to think it is an overall networking issue. I think this because there are DHCP errors on the client event log stating it has had a DHCPNACK error from an IP that is not part of the network which is very strange??!!!

Thanks.