Sigh. I truly wish MS would either fix IE maintenance policy or just kill it
because its just the buggiest piece of <insert expletive here> around.
Larry, try enabling the following policy on all computers that receive the
home page policy--Computer Configuration\Admin Templates\System\Group
Policy\IE Maintenance Policy Processing\Process even if the GP objects have
not changed.

Give that a go (it may require a couple of logons to trigger) and see if
that helps. This is described at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306915/en-us, though I'm not sure why the KB
article tells you to tweak the registry directly, since they provide a
policy for that very purpose...

Darren

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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry Wahlers
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 12:04 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Reset home page via GPO

David Adner wrote:
> 
> > This IE setting can be applied via "policy mode" or "preferences 
> > mode".
> > Policy mode is what you normally think of when configuring GPO 
> > settings in that it'll be reset if a user ever changes it.  
> > Preferences
> mode only
> > changes the initial value but allows the user to change it 
> > afterwards if they like without having it switch back each time GPOs 
> > are applied.
> > Instead, it is only reset if the GPO itself is modified.

I hate to beat this dead horse, but the client wants the "policy mode"
enabled. I did that on the DC, did the gpupdate /force, but it's not
working. Folks who change the forced IE home page to be their own custom one
can reboot their computers, log in, and they still get their custom home
page, not the GPO forced home page.

Now, I linked the GPO to an OU that has OU's beneath it, one for users, one
for admins, one for groups, etc. Group Policy Results Wizard shows that the
GPO is a winning GPO, but the actual results are, it is not being enforced.

What am I missing here? How can I enforce this GPO so that every time a
person logs in, they get the GPO-forced home page?

Thanks, folks!

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Larry Wahlers
Concordia Technologies
The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod
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