Darren, thanks for the mail reply. this was my initial view - but google searches on "nogopolistchanges" seem to lead to apparently contradicting info;
http://www.tburke.net/info/regentry/topics/GPRef.htm seems to go directly against that which is documented under Q306915 and other technotes that suggest the configuration of the CSE is under the registry key with "gpextensions" fact of the matter (which i would be glad for your confirmed observation on) is that when the policy is enabled via the policy editor the registry key under gpextensions is NOT set to 1 when the policy is applied in fact the other reg value (which i am not sure why you don't have on your system ? - win2k professional / SP3) is modified to reflect the policy settings as i see it i have no confidence that the "running config" of the GP clients is such that IE maintenance policies are being applied irrespective of update ?? seem to exhausted offers from the MS newsgroup so me thinks am in for a rough ride on this one !!! GT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darren Mar-Elia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 5:51 PM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] group policy processing of IE settings Graham- Generally speaking, when you need to change CSE processing behavior, its typically done where the CSE is registered, which is under hklm/software/microsoft/windows nt/current version/winlogon/gp extensions/. I don't have the 1st reg key you listed on my machines, so I'm not sure where that comes from. If you don't want to futz with making these registry changes, the NoGPOListChanges option is the same as the Administrative Template policy called "Process Even if the Group Policy objects have not changed". You can set this for the IE Maintenance CSE by going into the GPO namespace under: Computer Configuration|Administrative Templates|System|Group Policy|IE Maintenance Policy Processing. Darren -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Graham Turner Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 7:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] group policy processing of IE settings not sure if this list accepts issues relating to the configuration of Internet explorer using Group policy - if not apolgoies but would nonetheless be v glad for assistances on the apparently inconsistent behaviour w.r.t the setting of the auto-configuration script value. definites i can confirm; 1. the internet maintenance processing policy is enabled - (see later) 2. the IE maintenance is in policy (NOT preference) mode the observed behaviour is that despite the autoconfig script value being set by policy, in some cases this particular policy is not being applied - seems similar to that documented by KB306915 i think the issue seems to evolve around the setting of the registry value "NOGPOLISTCHANGES" for the client side extension that processes the internet explorer maintenance settings - in short the one that ends in "00C04F86AE3B" the policy that is applied to the computer has the "Internet Explorer Mainteance processing" policy enabled with the "process even if the GP objects have not changed" set. this is verified by the result of gpresult.exe and the values set in the registey key; hklm/software/policies/microsoft/windows/grouppolicy/GUID....AE3B however KB306915 / KB216358 seem to allude to a registry value of the same "nogoplistchanges" name but under a different key; hklm/software/microsoft/windows nt/current version/winlogon/gp extensions/GUID...AE3B not sure how these two keys are related - if at all ?? KB306915 seems to suggest the enabling of the IE maintenance policy is configured using the value under the latter key my testing would go against this and that in fact it sets the former key help in the debug of this will be v gladly received GT List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
