I have an auditing software that can tell me where a user logged in. I ran that on the user in question and myself. We have not been logging in on the same DC, but I did look at both of the DCs that we were using, and compared the policy folder timestamp there with the timestamp on my main GP management server. The timestamps are all the same. That said, if I’m looking at the GPO, on Details tab, it shows Modified with a timestamp of yesterday. The timestamp on the policy GUID folder in sysvol\domain\Policies is from April of 2016. Am I looking in the wrong place, or does that sound odd? Also, I did run repadmin /showrepl, and repadmin /replsummary, and neither of those had any errors.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charles F Sullivan Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 9:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Group Policy question I’m pretty stumped, but maybe you could try making sure that when you run GPMC for the other user, that it uses the same DC as when you run it for yourself to confirm it’s not something like a replication issue. Alternatively, get the GUID for the GPO, then check the respective folder under SYSVOL on each DC to make sure that gpt.ini has the same time stamp on each one. (Assuming you don’t have a large number of DCs to check!) Also, if you could maybe inconvenience the user to log on to your workstation so that a profile is created, then you would be able to choose that account for the user settings next time you run RSOP. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 11:58 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Group Policy question The settings themselves are not being applied. The last time group policy was processed: 1/25/2017 8:26:02 AM (from summary page) Under Applied GPOs, the policy in question is listed as applied. The odd thing is this: [cid:[email protected]] I’m wondering what the Revisions are off. If I look at the GPO itself, on the Details tab, it shows the same revision in AD and sysvol. On the specific policy I’m looking at (CDFW Proxy Policy), there are no WMI filters. It’s linked to 2 OUs, not in a direct path of each other, and it is applied to Authenticated Users. The above is for a user, on their machine. If I run the same report for me on my machine, I do have the settings applied, the settings do appear in the report, and the revision info is as above. This is not a new policy. It was created 9/1/2015, and it is used to set the proxy settings in IE. It has been working well since it was created, but in the past couple of days, I’ve heard of a couple of users that it is no longer working for. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charles F Sullivan Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 7:17 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Group Policy question Is it only that the reporting is wrong, or does the user also not get the settings applied? When you run the Results Wizard from GPMC on the Summary tab are there any errors and does it show a recent time stamp for the last user policy refresh? On the Details tab under User Details > Applied GPOs, if you show the details for the GPO in question does everything look right? Are there any Security Filters or WMI Filters that might affect the user? (Possibly certain permissions like Allow Read but not Apply GP might cause this, but I’m not certain.) From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 5:25 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Group Policy question OK. I’ve done the Group Policy Results wizard for the user in question on their PC, and for myself on my PC. I have the policy applied correctly, the user does not. The Group Policy Results wizard shows the policy in question is applied, but the settings don’t show up in the report. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charles F Sullivan Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 1:31 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Group Policy question It worked correctly for me when I tried to reproduce the problem. Try the Group Policy Results Wizard in the GPMC for the same user to see if you get different results. The HTML output is better there anyway. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 3:50 PM To: 'NT System Admin Issues Discussion list' <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: [NTSysADM] Group Policy question What would cause gpresult /USER jsmith /R to show a specific group policy as being applied, but if you do a gpresult /USER jsmith /H c:\test.html, the report does not show any of the settings of that policy? Joe Heaton Information Technology Operations Branch Data and Technology Division CA Department of Fish and Wildlife 1700 9th Street, 3rd Floor Sacramento, CA 95811 Desk: (916) 323-1284 Every Californian should conserve water. Find out how at: [SaveOurWater_Logo]<http://saveourwater.com/> SaveOurWater.com<http://saveourwater.com/> · Drought.CA.gov<http://drought.ca.gov/>
