You don't need a 2008 DC to deploy GPP. You need an up level client(2K3/Vista/Win7) for management and the GPP CSE deployed to your downlevel clients you want to manage.
From: Sean Martin [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 10:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Auto Lock via Group Policy That sounds like an interesting solution, but you're right, deploying Windows 2008 isn't realistic in our environment just yet. - Sean On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 9:43 AM, James Rankin <[email protected]> wrote: Can you do this with a Group Policy Preference rather than a Policy Object? If I remember rightly the Policy option locks the option to change it regardless. The Preference option might give the user the option to change...although you will have to install a 2008 DC, load the GP management tool on a 2008/Vista client and install the Group Policy Client-Side Extensions on the clients if memory serves me right. Might be a bit too much work for what you are trying to achieve (if my recollection is correct, I may be talking complete garbage) 2009/9/11 Sean Martin <[email protected]> Windows 2003 Domain Windows XP Clients Windows 2003 Servers Windows XPe Thin Clients I'm deploying a GPO to auto lock all desktops/servers after 15 minutes of inactivity. This GPO also disables access to the screen saver tab in Display properties. That works just fine. I have a couple of OUs containing Computer Objects that need the same auto lock settings, except I don't want to disable access to the screen saver settings. I thought this would be possible by creating a separate GPO for that OU and enabling loop back processing. I've disabled the feature "Hide Screen Saver tab", and the screen saver tab is visible on those Computers, however I'm still unable to modify the screen saver settings. Is there any way around that without disabling the auto lock settings entirely? - Sean -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." http://raythestray.blogspot.com <http://raythestray.blogspot.com/> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
