Group Policy - Windows Server 2003 Enterprise R2.

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** Note - I am running this in a virtual PC environment **

Greetings all,

I am unable to get my clients, 2 virtual Windows XP SP 2 machines, to apply
Group Policies I setup in the GPMC. When I attempt to troubleshoot the
problem with RSOP I get the following message:

"Failed to connect to host HOME\TESTXP2 due to the error listed below.
Ensure that the WMI service is enabled on target computer, and consult the
event log of the target computer for further details."

Details:
"The RPC server is unavailable."

I went ahead and verified, and the client has both the WMI service started,
and no errors or strange entries in the local Event Logs. (Application or
System) DNS is setup and working properly, local names resolve locally and
any external names are set to be forwarded to an external DNS server.
(Multi-homed PC) I can ping both by IP and Name the server from the clients,
and vice versa. In addition, I ran a gpupdate /force on both clients and got a message the policies were applied successfully yet nothing I define is hitting the clients.

Can anyone lend me a hand with some additional troubleshooting tips? Thanks!

Fenris.

 

[sonnyjim]

Check your WMI Filters again, also check the inheritence of the Policies - to - OU structure.
It could well be that you have settings that are contradicting eachother somewhere.
Try disabling your Domain Policy , and any others and making a new one which applied to Authenticated Users and also Computers.

If that works then you have a base for trouble-shooting.


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