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kcnychief
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 | | 12/16/2009 1:38 PM |
| Hi Darren,
Thanks for the info - very helpful and I'm now able to identify which ADMX files may be missing. One other silly question though - since I'm worried about the "missing" settings, is it safe to assume if the GPO with the values in "extra registry settings" is deleted, these will no longer apply?
Just making sure I understand the impact, as I'm sure that is the case.
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 11:10 AM
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [gptalk] Cleanup/From Scratch Question
Derek-
What you should see, in GPMC, when you do a settings report on a GPO, is that any administrative template settings that don't have the underlying ADMX, will appear as "extra registry settings". That being said, that doesn't really give you any help in finding the ADMX that belongs to those settings, but at least you know what the registry values are that are set in the GPO. Other than that, you don't have many options - if the underlying ADMX can't be located, then you would have to re-create an ADMX that manages those registry values and then they will appear in the GP Editor as expected.
Darren
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Derek Rose
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 3:48 AM
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Cleanup/From Scratch Question
OK, I'll take one on the chin here but appreciate everyone's advice. I have learned 90% of what I know about GPO over this past year, and I seem to have messed up pretty good along the way somewhere. When I first started at my current place of employment, we had all Windows 2003 DC's, and I had a Vista workstation. Wanting to take advantage of GPP, I was doing a lot of that from my workstation and also installing many adm/admx files on my machines (not using a central store).
I have rebuilt my machine a few times because I do to much software and other testing (have since switched to using VMs), and appear to have lost a few settings along the way. I thought I had migrated everything to the central store before doing so, but I am running into a few weird problems. The problems being I have some settings that are controlled by GPO, for instance, IE settings, that don't technically exist in any of my current GPOs. So, what I did was install the missing adm/admx files on the central store. This then populated the GPO's with options that weren't there previously, and the options were already configured as I had them before.
My problem is I don't know the extent of the "missing" options. I also had to throw a lot up very quickly, so my overall organization of everything is not really how I want it to be. I would like to start over of sorts, but want to make sure I can cleanup settings that don't technically appear in a GPO but are configured.
Sorry if this is too loaded of a question, but any pointers you guys may have are very much appreciated.
Thanks,
Derek
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