[gptalk] Re: Delete a Custom ADM policy

  • From: "Alan Cuthbertson" <syspro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 22:33:06 +1100

Hi,

 

Once the setting has been activated in the GPO, removing the ADM file is not
sufficient. All that this does is hide it in GPEDIT. If you put the ADM file
back in place, you will see that the setting is still enabled. You need to
put the ADM file back, change the setting to "not Applied" and then remove
the ADM file.

 

Alternatively you can leave the wrong key in the ADM file and change it to
DELETE. This will then remove the wrong key valuename from all the machines.

 

 

Alan Cuthbertson

 

 

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From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of tamerm@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, 8 January 2009 6:57 PM
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Delete a Custom ADM policy

 


I try to add a registry key to a registry using the ADM file, but I write a
wrong path to the registry key. 

I tried to remove the custom ADM from the GP and manually delete the
registry key from the clients computers using REG DELETE. But I found that
the client computer is still having that key in the registry after
restarting? 

What is the best way to do the following:- 
1- Remove the incorrect ADM from the GP. 
2- Remove the incorrect key from clients computers. 
3- Reapplying the ADM after correcting the registry key. 


The incorrect ADM is: 
CLASS MACHINE 
CATEGORY "Windows Components" 
CATEGORY "Terminal Services" 
KEYNAME "SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services" 

POLICY !!ALLOW_TSMANAGER 
#if version >= 4 
SUPPORTED !!WinXP 
#endif 
EXPLAIN !!ALLOW_TSMANAGER_EXPLAIN 
ACTIONLISTON 
VALUENAME "AllowRemoteRPC" VALUE NUMERIC 1 
END ACTIONLISTON 
ACTIONLISTOFF 
VALUENAME "AllowRemoteRPC" VALUE NUMERIC 0 
END ACTIONLISTOFF 
END POLICY 


End Category 
End Category 

[strings] 
WinXP="At least Windows XP Professional or Windows 2003 Server" 
ALLOW_TSMANAGER="Allow access from Terminal Services Manager" 
ALLOW_TSMANAGER_EXPLAIN="Allows administrators to use the Terminal Services
Manager to remote control the user session." 

The correct ADM is: 
CLASS MACHINE 
CATEGORY "Windows Components" 
CATEGORY "Terminal Services" 
KEYNAME "System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server" 

POLICY !!ALLOW_TSMANAGER 
#if version >= 4 
SUPPORTED !!WinXP 
#endif 
EXPLAIN !!ALLOW_TSMANAGER_EXPLAIN 
ACTIONLISTON 
VALUENAME "AllowRemoteRPC" VALUE NUMERIC 1 
END ACTIONLISTON 
ACTIONLISTOFF 
VALUENAME "AllowRemoteRPC" VALUE NUMERIC 0 
END ACTIONLISTOFF 
END POLICY 


End Category 
End Category 

[strings] 
WinXP="At least Windows XP Professional or Windows 2003 Server" 
ALLOW_TSMANAGER="Allow access from Terminal Services Manager" 
ALLOW_TSMANAGER_EXPLAIN="Allows administrators to use the Terminal Services
Manager to remote control the user session." 













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