Upgrading SBS Group Policy for Windows XP

Hello,
I am trying to upgrade the sbs policy to include the additional xp features
(using kb 307900).
However, the new values are not injected into the existing policies.

There is one exception to this: if I create a brand new policy on the server
and then open that policy on an xp pro machine (without opening it first on
the server), it updates perfectly. However, if i then attempt to open up the
policy on the server, all new settings are lost....

Can anyone shed any light on what is going wrong?

TIA
Stephen

Steve
Thu Jun 17 16:10:32 CDT 2004

Stephen (StudioTwo) wrote:

> Hello,
> I am trying to upgrade the sbs policy to include the additional xp
> features (using kb 307900).
> However, the new values are not injected into the existing policies.

Note the comment in the article that the Policy objects are only
upgraded when you actually drill down into the settings.

>
> There is one exception to this: if I create a brand new policy on the
> server and then open that policy on an xp pro machine (without
> opening it first on the server), it updates perfectly. However, if i
> then attempt to open up the policy on the server, all new settings
> are lost....

Windows 2000 Server cannot see or deal with the upgraded policy
elements. The KB article is quite clear that the upgraded policies
should only be edited from XP.

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Stephen
Mon Jun 21 09:37:19 CDT 2004

Steve,
Thank you so much for the reply.

> Note the comment in the article that the Policy objects are only
> upgraded when you actually drill down into the settings.

I am now sat inside the Administrative Templates/Network settings (from
Windows XP). Is that what you mean by "Drill Down" into the settings?
The only items I see are "Offline Files" & "Network & Dialup Connections".
There is no sign of "DNS Client" etc..

> Windows 2000 Server cannot see or deal with the upgraded policy
> elements. The KB article is quite clear that the upgraded policies
> should only be edited from XP.

I accept that the server cannot see the new policies, but are you saying
that if I open the policy (even by mistake) from the server, they will be
"downgraded" when I try to look at them again from my Windows XP
Workstation? That is what appears to be happening.

I _must_ be doing something daft...

Thanks again for you time,
Stephen

Steve
Tue Jun 22 18:29:18 CDT 2004

Stephen (StudioTwo) wrote:

> Steve,
> Thank you so much for the reply.
>
> > Note the comment in the article that the Policy objects are only
> > upgraded when you actually drill down into the settings.
>
> I am now sat inside the Administrative Templates/Network settings
> (from Windows XP). Is that what you mean by "Drill Down" into the
> settings? The only items I see are "Offline Files" & "Network &
> Dialup Connections". There is no sign of "DNS Client" etc..

I'd have thought that was what they meant.

>
> > Windows 2000 Server cannot see or deal with the upgraded policy
> > elements. The KB article is quite clear that the upgraded policies
> > should only be edited from XP.
>
> I accept that the server cannot see the new policies, but are you
> saying that if I open the policy (even by mistake) from the server,
> they will be "downgraded" when I try to look at them again from my
> Windows XP Workstation? That is what appears to be happening.

I'm afraid, daft as it sounds, that is pretty much what the article
implies.

>
> I must be doing something daft...

Could be Microsoft instead... <eg>

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Steve Foster [SBS MVP]
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