Correct. Just use a Vista/2008 (or Win7) box with the RSAT tools and you can push Group Policy Preferences settings to XP or better clients. You'll need to push the MSI down to the XP clients to install the CSE but that shouldn't be a big deal.
Thanks, Brian Desmond [email protected] c - 312.731.3132 Active Directory, 4th Ed - http://www.briandesmond.com/ad4/ Microsoft MVP - https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Brian From: Richard Stovall [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 2:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Regional Settings on GPO I haven't used preferences yet, but from what I've read here I don't think that you need a 2008 level directory, just a 2008 server from which to configure the preferences. From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 2:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Regional Settings on GPO Ok only on 2003 AD. Is there a ADM and if so how do I use it? ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Stovall<mailto:[email protected]> To: NT System Admin Issues<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 2:40 PM Subject: RE: Regional Settings on GPO Looks like you need 2008 to do this with Group Policy Preferences. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverGP/thread/ec6a290e-fc09-4be6-9f6a-1f532d338606 From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 2:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Regional Settings on GPO I need to add Negative Currency $1.1- and Negative Number 1.1- to my Domain GPO but I do not know how. Can some one drag me to the article that discribes this??? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
