Some policies take up to 2 restarts before they go into effect. You also need to define which of the many types of policies you are attempting to put into place. I know when we started to move into 2008 DC's some, actually most of the XP machines did not take to the new policies until I added the Group Policy Extensions "Patch". Did you put the test machines into a group and then assign that group read rights to the policy?
Jon On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Karla Nelson <[email protected]>wrote: > I work in a small manufacturing environment with approx. 50 computers. I > have been here for less than a year, and we are now trying to lock things > down "a bit" (it's a start!). We have a mixed server environment with DC's > in Windows Server 2000, 2003 & 2008. Computers are mostly Windows XP, with a > few Windows 2000 left. I have attempted to apply our own custom security > template through Group Policy. I am testing it on three computers (one is > mine). 2 of the test computers are XP, the other is 2000. > I imported the new security template into it's own GPO late yesterday > afternoon, went home and expected to log in this morning with the changes in > place (not so). I ran RSoP on my machine, which did NOT show the GPO in > effect. Went into the new GPO, made sure it included the three test > computers (users) and applied "Read" and "Apply Group Policy" permissions. I > then moved the new GPO up in link order to #2, just behind the Default > Domain Policy. Forced updates (gpupdate /force) on server and my laptop, > still not in effect. I'm not sure what's going wrong at this point. Is it > "allowable" to move the new security GPO up to the #1 link spot, (before the > Default Domain Policy)? Any suggestions as to what I may be doing wrong? > This is not the first GPO I have worked with, however, it is the first that > I have not been able to apply properly. Thanks! > > ~ NEW: CounterSpy Enterprise: Centralized Antispyware - #1 in eWEEK Test! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/product.cfm?id=400> ~ > ~ NEW: CounterSpy Enterprise: Centralized Antispyware - #1 in eWEEK Test! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/product.cfm?id=400> ~
