[windows2000] Re: Policy not taking effect
- From: "Sorin Srbu" <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 08:50:54 +0200
Daniel Ensor <> wrote on Friday, September 29, 2006 4:32 PM:
Oh, *that* report. I'll post it ASAP, just want to check if my testfix I did
late last Friday took effect. BBL.
> If you're using GPMC then if you right click on the policy you should
> have save report as an option. You can save as an xml or HTML, is that
> what Jim means? JIM??
>
> Cheers
> Dan
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sorin Srbu
> Sent: 29 September 2006 15:13
> To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [windows2000] Re: Policy not taking effect
>
> 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?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sorin Srbu Sent: 29
>> September 2006 14:55 To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [windows2000] Re: Policy not taking effect
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
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>>> [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sorin Srbu
>>> Sent: 29 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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