[THIN] Re: GPO Loopback processing

  • From: Carl Stalhood <cstalhood@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:54:24 -0500

GPOs do nothing more than set registry keys.

If you have one GPO that sets the key to enable loopback, that is all you
need.

In GPMC, run Group Policy Results to verify that loopback is enabled.



On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Wilson, Christopher <CMWilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

>  ‘Afternoon, y’all.
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> I have a question about group policy loopback.  Is the loop back setting
> good only within the policy where it is set, or does it apply to other
> policies, for instance in the same OU.
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> I have always set the loopback for **each** policy with user settings I
> wanted to apply to a group of computers, as with Citrix servers.
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> I am surveying the GPO’s at a new job and they have a policy called “GPO
> loopback” with only the loopback setting applied – nothing else.  There are
> several other user configuration policies in the same OU and subcontainers,
> some of which use the loopback setting and some do not.   My thought is that
> the policies without the loop back switch are not being applied.
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> Is that right?  The “loop back only” policy has me second guessing
> myself.   (Unfortunately I don’t have access yet to run a RSOP)
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> Thanks,
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> Christopher
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