Just put the systems in a different OU or use security filtering to limit those GPO settings to computers you have identified for testing. Regards, Jamie Nelson -----Original Message----- From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jean F. Mesidor Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 10:45 AM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Re: Question importing GPO Settings Thanks. I am looking at ways for a non-admin user to be able to locally import these settings on his machine... We want to have them test the settings, but locally on their machines. Thanks, Jean -----Original Message----- From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nelson, Jamie R Contr 72 CS/SCBAF Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 10:01 AM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Re: Question importing GPO Settings Replacing the .adm file(s) won't do anything. Extract the GPO .zip file to your harddrive. Then In GPMC, create a new GPO, right-click and select "Import Settings". Then point to the GPO source files you extracted and you should be good. Each GUID is a separate GPO so you may have to do this a couple times to import them all. Regards, Jamie Nelson -----Original Message----- From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jean F. Mesidor Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 8:54 AM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Question importing GPO Settings As you probably aware of, the OMB has mandated that all federal agencies use the Federal Desktop Common Configuration settings. NIST has released some GPO settings to meet these requirements, I was looking for a way to import these settings without having to change them without going to each and everyone of them through the GPMC. Any advice on how to easily accomplish that? Would replacing the ADM file under windows\inf folder with the one NIST provided do the trick? Thanks, Jean *********************** You can unsubscribe from gptalk by sending email to gptalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the freelists.org Web interface. Archives for the list are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/gptalk/ ************************ *********************** You can unsubscribe from gptalk by sending email to gptalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the freelists.org Web interface. Archives for the list are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/gptalk/ ************************ *********************** You can unsubscribe from gptalk by sending email to gptalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the freelists.org Web interface. Archives for the list are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/gptalk/ ************************ *********************** You can unsubscribe from gptalk by sending email to gptalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the freelists.org Web interface. Archives for the list are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/gptalk/ ************************