The GPMC whitepaper (Administering Group Policy with Group Policy Management Console) goes into a lot of detail on how the different policy editors hande the adm files, it's the most succinct treatment of the subject I have seen. Look for Administrative Templates Background, Administrative Templates and GPMC and Administrative Templates and Group Policy Object Editor starting on page 30.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/gpmc/gpmcwp.mspx Bottom line as oft recommended by MS, use GPMC and XP/2003 to edit GPOs. -----Original Message----- From: Jason Benway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 1:50 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [ActiveDir] Win2k AD Policies and adm files We have about 15 Ad Policies. Some of the policies are older have where created on a win2k box the newer one have been created on a winXP box. I noticed some of the policies have different options available. For example the option to list DNS search order is not on our standard policy, but I know I've configured it because when I use the group policy management span-in and view the detail report of this policy the search order domains is listed. But its not there when I try to edit the policy. Yet If I create a brand new policy, the option is there in edit mode. Is there any easy way to get all my policies to use the same adm files? Thanks,jb 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/
