[windows2000] Re: Policy not taking effect
- From: "Sorin Srbu" <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:13:13 +0200
Daniel Ensor <> wrote on Friday, September 29, 2006 4:03 PM:
So I figured, only, I don't know what an "admin text file" is. Terminology
problem I think I have here. 8-]
Yes, it's the standard Office 2003 adm-template I'm using. Nothing custom
made, just the out-of-the-box adm-template and then setup with various things
within.
> Hmmm I think you should post what you're trying to change as Jim
> suggested...
>
> Is it using an ADM for office 2003 then?
>
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> [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sorin Srbu
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> Subject: [windows2000] Re: Policy not taking effect
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> Daniel Ensor <> wrote on Friday, September 29, 2006 3:44 PM:
>
> Yepp, I did, as mentioned with respect to "GPO wizards" below, ie both
> GP Modeling and GP Results, have been used to check for problems.
>
> What I found was that they are taking effect, just not all of them(...)
> in that particular GPO, and that's causing me grief [uuencode is always
> on] which fouls up posting attachments to our internal mailing lists at
> the department...
>
> And no 8-), me and university helpdesk concluded it's not a
> mail/list-server problem but rather that the policy setting is not
> taking effect completely.
>
> I found that out after checking, on a hunch, the registry settings for
> Outlook on my own machine. The key
> "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Options\Mail\Message Plain
> Format MIME" is set to "0", no matter what. I assumed the key would
> change to 1 when checking the "don't use uuencode" GPO, but it didn't...
>
>
>> Hi Sorin
>>
>> Have you run gpresult to see if the policy is being applied. I always
>> use this tool to check on stuff as it's pretty cool and often helps when
>> stuff's not running.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Dan
>>
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>> September 2006 14:09 To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [windows2000] Policy not taking effect
>>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> Do you guys have any idea on what to do when a policy won't take effect?
>>
>> Tried gpupdate /force and a reboot. None of which helped. The policy
>> is set as "enforced", so I assume the policy will be forcefully merged
>
>> with the local policies as expected.
>>
>> The GPO wizards report that the GPO has taken effect, but when looking
>
>> in the registry, the key that I wanted to change is still unchanged.
>>
>> FWIW, I need some settings in Office 2003 to be set to a default of my
>
>> choice, and which the users cannot change.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> BW,
>>
>> Sorin
>>
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