Group Policy HELP

[craig_borden]

First let me apologize if this is the stupidest question of all time.

Next let me introduce myself, my name is Craig and I teach in a school in Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada... 600 miles above the Arctic Circle. There are no techs up here to help me with my problem! I have the task of setting up our new server running windows 2003. I have NEVER setup nor worked on a server before! I have to learn everything as I go.

That being said my problem may be something that I don't see, maybe I created my users, groups or OU wrong. But the problem that I am having now is group policies.

I have installed the Group Policy Management Console snap-on (or is that snap-in). And here is what I have done.

I created an OU called school this was created right under my domain. Then I created another OU called students and another on grade 9-12.

domain

- school

- students

- grade 9-12

Then in the "active directory users and computers" I created a user in the grade 9-12 OU called test_t. This user use a profile set to \\server\profiles$\%USERNAME% this roaming profile work fine.

SO, I want to create a group policy that controls my users, so I can set proxy, home pages... you know group policy stuff!

So in the GPMC I right click "Group Policy Objects" and go to "new". Give my new policy a name "test".

Next I right click my OU students and "Link an existing GPO", and select "test" from the list.

Then I right click the GPO "test" and edit. From there I go -user -windows -internet -connection -proxy settings and enable proxy settings.

So just to summarize. I have a user created in a OU. That OU have a GPO linked to it. The GPO has a proxy setting set in it... sooooo I would think that when my user test_t logs in is I were to go to -internet options -connections -lan settings I should see the proxy server that I set.... right?

Well that does not happen. nothing happens. This all started from me wanting to setup folder redirection (which is a group policy thing) so my students can stop moaning about login times!!

Please, please help a guy from the arctic!!

[-pops-]

Hello. I can't help but I'm sure someone here will come to your aid soon.

What I wanted to say is that almost no questions are stupid. You're asking because you don't know the answer - which is fair enough. How would we ever learn otherwise?

Come and ask as many questions as you want - that's what the forum is for. :)

[craig_borden]

Hello. I can't help but I'm sure someone here will come to your aid soon.

What I wanted to say is that almost no questions are stupid. You're asking because you don't know the answer - which is fair enough. How would we ever learn otherwise?

Come and ask as many questions as you want - that's what the forum is for. :)

Thank you sir. I hope someone does help me out here... I have been reading up in Group Policies all week it seems and I can get nothing done!!!

I see what they can do, and know it is going to make my job so much easier!!! I just need to know what I am doing wrong or forgetting to do!

[craig_borden]

Just a little bump for an ongoing problem!

I mean to say nothing is working, not IE Maintenance (proxies, home page), folder redirection, password requirements... nothing!

Is it possible that something has gone wrong with the whole server?? I am thinking about a clean install (I hate the thoughts of this) the server is not doing what we need it to do like this. Or do you think that just removing the Domain controller and adding it back could work??

A little more help please

[craig_borden]

OK so some updates. I have learned quite alot since starting down this road!

I had installed the DNS wrong, I am also getting help from another forum (well in fact I have gotten NO help from here yet... I am sure that will change :) ) So when I checked my event viewer I had errors everywhere! My DNS was messed up. So I removed the AD and DNS, reinstalled the serveces, fixed my issue (I forgot to forward the DNS) and now after two days I have no errors!! :) I do have some warnings in the system, I will try to figure them out now.

SO where we stand is this. I have created a test user that does not have a roaming profile. This user is in a OU named "test"

-domain

--school

---students

----test

I have created a GPO named "gpo test" in the GPMC and linked it to the OU "test"

The only thing I have enabled in this GPO is

-user

--admin templates

---start enu and taskbar

I have removed the user name from the start menu

SOOO

I log onto the computer using my test account. I can still see my user name on my start menu! I run gpresult and the result is

info: the policy object does not exist

When I look at my event viewer for security I see what may be a problem!

At the time that I logon instead of seeing "tester test" logon I see an "Anonymous logon"

Could this have something to do with it??

I am still in GREAT need of help here. I am not looking for someone to do it for me... just some guidance

[Irene]

Hello Craig. Welcome to the forum. :D

I am sorry that you have not had any other responses to your query.

However, I am not sure that I can truely be of much assistance, but I did a bit of searching and wondered if THIS might be of any help.

There are some other links near the bottom of the Microsoft Support page, which might also prove to be useful.

Please let us know how you get on.

Hopefully someone else with more experience than I will reply.

In the meantime, I will keep searching. :)

[Irene]

Another couple of links follow, Craig...

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/grouppolicy AND http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_Policy