Vista Puzzler - Group Policy Issues

[smudley]

Here's my problem:

I have a 3 Vista Business computers, (1) desktop and (2) laptops on a Win2003 domain.

The desktop and laptop #1 are admin computers and are just fine and are happy campers.
Laptop #2 however is an admin computer that is locked down like a regular users computer.
Even being logged in as a Domain Admin it's locked tight. (can't change display, themes, run regedit or run the Run command.)

I ran a Group Policy Results report and it's not applying 100% our special admin policy.

In the Summary I get these warnings:

Scripts Failed 3/13/2008 11:37:23 AM
Scripts failed due to the error listed below.

Access is denied.

Additional information may have been logged. Review the Policy Events tab in the console or the application event log for events between 3/13/2008 11:37:23 AM and 3/13/2008 11:37:23 AM.

and

Registry Failed 3/13/2008 11:49:10 AM
Registry failed due to the error listed below.

Unspecified error

Additional information may have been logged. Review the Policy Events tab in the console or the application event log for events between 3/13/2008 11:49:10 AM and 3/13/2008 11:49:10 AM.

The Policy Events log shows no warnings.
The Application Event log shows no errors.

The System Event log however shows this:

Windows failed to apply the Scripts settings. Scripts settings might have its own log file. Please click on the "More information" link.

And clicking on the "More information" link takes me to

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windo...7eca-4c69-b5a3-9054a77a88d31033.mspx?mfr=true

Which really gives no solutions to my problem (typical).

So, before I'm shipped off to a little round rubber room to bounce off the walls of the rest of my life, I'm hoping someone will be able to have a brilliant solution to rescue me from my bouncing demise.

Thanks,

Smudley

 

[linney]

See if there are any clues in these?

Security auditing settings are not applied to Windows Vista-based and Window Server 2008-based computers when you deploy a domain-based policy

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/921468

Troubleshooting Group Policy Objects for Windows Vista

http://searchwincomputing.techtarget.com/generic/0,295582,sid68_gci1286448,00.html

http://www.google.com/search?q=group+policy+not+applied+in+vista&rls=com.microsoft:

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=group+policy+not+applied+in+vista&rls=com.microsoft:

Short of starting again with a clean install all I can suggest as a possible alternative would be to remove the Laptop from the Domain completely on both local and server machines, perhaps rename the laptop computer, and then rejoin the Domain.

You might find a better solution in the Server Forum.

http://www.tek-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=931