Group Policy Management Console Incomplete results

Recluse · 03-03-2009, 02:11 PM

Hello all,

When I run the Group Policy Management Console and browse my GPOs, I notice it gives incomplete information on policies that are being set. When I run Resultant Set of Policy, all the settings are there and correct. Am I misunderstanding what the Group Policy Management Console does? This is on a Windows XP Pro SP3 machine with version 1.0.2 connecting to a Windows 2003 64-bit SP2.

Thanks!

**lorjack** · 03-03-2009, 07:43 PM

What do you mean by incomplete information on the policies being set? Like it doesn't show all the policies that are being applied? Or it doesn't show every policy that could be applied? The GPMC is only supposed to show the policies that are actually set in the GPO. You can use Group policy Results which does the same thing as RSoP.

**bilbus** · 03-03-2009, 09:04 PM

You should only see GPOs that are applied to a OU, they can be applied from above and that wont show unless you move up.

Recluse · 03-05-2009, 06:33 AM

Sorry, I meant when I use group policy editor to set policies, then go back to Group Policy Management Console and look at the group policy settings, not all of the policies that were set are showing up. For instance I set Disable Autocomplete for Forms as Enabled, but it does not show up in the GPMC as being configured. If I set the GPO to Enforce, then that option does come up (and some others still do not) but says it's disabled. I've checked the hierarchy and the GPOs above it, and nothing should be interfering. When I run Resultant Set of Policy on a User in the OU that the GPO applies to, it does show everything I've configured so I'm not sure what's going on there.

Thanks for your help so far everyone!

Recluse · 03-10-2009, 08:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bilbus

You should only see GPOs that are applied to a OU, they can be applied from above and that wont show unless you move up.

The policies are in one GPO and I did make sure I'm looking at the OU it's directly applied to.

**lorjack** · 03-10-2009, 05:14 PM

Are the ones missing a specific class of settings, like computer or user settings? Or is it just random

03-03-2009, 02:11 PM	#1 (permalink)
Recluse Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 11 OS: Windows XP SP3	Group Policy Management Console Incomplete results Hello all, When I run the Group Policy Management Console and browse my GPOs, I notice it gives incomplete information on policies that are being set. When I run Resultant Set of Policy, all the settings are there and correct. Am I misunderstanding what the Group Policy Management Console does? This is on a Windows XP Pro SP3 machine with version 1.0.2 connecting to a Windows 2003 64-bit SP2. Thanks!

03-03-2009, 07:43 PM	#2 (permalink)
lorjack TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Planet Earth Posts: 2,205 OS: Windows 2K, XP Pro sp3, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Ubuntu	Re: Group Policy Management Console Incomplete results What do you mean by incomplete information on the policies being set? Like it doesn't show all the policies that are being applied? Or it doesn't show every policy that could be applied? The GPMC is only supposed to show the policies that are actually set in the GPO. You can use Group policy Results which does the same thing as RSoP.

03-03-2009, 09:04 PM	#3 (permalink)
bilbus TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 949 OS: OS2 Warp	Re: Group Policy Management Console Incomplete results You should only see GPOs that are applied to a OU, they can be applied from above and that wont show unless you move up.

03-05-2009, 06:33 AM	#4 (permalink)
Recluse Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 11 OS: Windows XP SP3	Re: Group Policy Management Console Incomplete results Sorry, I meant when I use group policy editor to set policies, then go back to Group Policy Management Console and look at the group policy settings, not all of the policies that were set are showing up. For instance I set Disable Autocomplete for Forms as Enabled, but it does not show up in the GPMC as being configured. If I set the GPO to Enforce, then that option does come up (and some others still do not) but says it's disabled. I've checked the hierarchy and the GPOs above it, and nothing should be interfering. When I run Resultant Set of Policy on a User in the OU that the GPO applies to, it does show everything I've configured so I'm not sure what's going on there. Thanks for your help so far everyone!

03-10-2009, 05:14 PM	#6 (permalink)
lorjack TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Planet Earth Posts: 2,205 OS: Windows 2K, XP Pro sp3, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Ubuntu	Re: Group Policy Management Console Incomplete results Are the ones missing a specific class of settings, like computer or user settings? Or is it just random