Spooler disabled by invisible policy???

[allywilson]

Hi all,
2003 server acting as a print server. The print spooler service when started and startup set to automatic gets stopped and disabled whenever the group policy is applied to it. I can only assume this as whenever the policy is refreshed I can see the service being stopped in the eventlog and then the security policy successfully applied afterwards (like within a second). RSOP shows that the policy does not have the service disabled (it's not defined) - and I cannot find any group policies on the domain that even has it specified, nor local.

Any ideas how I can track down this rogue policy?

Using workarounds like "sc config spooler start= auto" is fine in the meantime - I would just rather not have to do it longterm i.e. Putting a fix in-place for something that shouldn't be broken is not good in my book.

Cheers,

 

[TheLad]

Go to a CMD prompt and type GPRESULT to see what policies are being applied. You can then check the Group Policies to see which is causing the issue.

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[allywilson]

My bad, I mis-interpreted the view. I seen disabled and believed it was the current status, rather than the status being applied, and then seen Not Defined on the permissions column and believed the setting wasn't being defined.

Apologies for wasting people's time...