Group Policy Preference: Problem Adding Network Locations

Group Policy Preferences (GPP) do not currently support correctly creating shortcuts in Network Locations/My Network Places the way Windows produces them when you go through the "Add a network location" wizard. Unfortunately, the GPP simply creates a standard shortcut instead of creating a folder that contains target.lnk and desktop.ini (the way the "Add a network location" wizard does).
I was curious to know when the GPP engine will be updated to correctly add Network Locations the way the "Add a network location" wizard does?
Thanks.

Talfr77,
I would like to know what environment you tried this under. I made policy like you described on a 2012 domain controller and the resulting shortcut worked fine on windows 8 clients and on the 2012 servers.
However, the 2008 servers and windows 7 clients didn't work. They simply got a folder with two files. It would appear that the format of the target.lnk file may be different between versions of windows. I took a target.lnk from a
working shortcut made on a 2008 server and put in on a 2012 server and the result was it not recognizing the shortcut.
It is also worth noting for anyone who wants to try this method, that in step 2 of Talfr77's directions he says to copy the desktop.ini file using the GPP file copy function to the subfolder with the target.lnk file. He didn't mention how to accomplish
that. You can store the desktop.ini file anywhere on your network as long as the UNC path to it is accessible to the user. I suggest you store it right in a subfolder of the GPO in the sysvol to keep things tidy. So that UNC would be the
source path. (example would be \\domain.local\SYSVOL\domain.LOCAL\Policies\{020DBAF4-2631-4246-8811-DE02F7613959}\desktop.ini) The destination path will be %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Network Shortcuts\<Subfolder name>\desktop.ini
The same goes for his step 3 where you edit the folder attributes. The folder you want to edit is %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Network Shortcuts\<Subfolder name>
Karl

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> But after selecting the desired computer account and clicking OK, the
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Hello,
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
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Group policy Preferences server 2008 and windows 7

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2008 server as it is the only one i am allowed to access regularly to do this.
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Hi,
>>The xp machines do this perfectly well when I install the client side extensions patch, but they just will not pull down on the 7 machines unless i install the
printer first manually, then delete it and then run gpupdate.
Before going further, we can run command
gpresult/h gpreport.html with admin privileges to collect group policy result on the troubled Windows 7 clients to check the issue. Besides, we can also check event logs in Event Viewer to see if some related error events were logged.
Besides, I want to confirm if we have disabled
Point and Print Restrictions under both User Configuration and Computer Configuration. To have a consistent experience, it’s recommended that we disable the policy setting in both locations if we are dealing with mixed-level clients.
Regarding this point, the following article can be referred to for more information.
Point and Print Restrictions policies are ignored in Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, and later Windows operating systems
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2307161/en-us
Best regards,
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Extreme slow login on Server 2008 R2 TS at Group Policy Preferences - Printers

I see references to this problem everywhere, going back to 2010. However I'm not finding any real answers.
I have Group Policy Preferences installing printers to Terminal Server Users. I have one policy that applies to 4 terminal servers. One of them is a 2008 R2, the others are 2003 x64. Only for the 2008 R2 server, after all of the printers
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Hi,
Based on your description, I want to confirm whether we have used Item-level Targeting of GPP for printer deploying.
GP Preferences settings that use Item- Level Targeting (ILT) are not inherently harmful. However, certain kinds of Item Level Targeting queries can
take more time to run.
Regarding this issue, the following article can be referred to for more information and the hotfix in the article can be downloaded to fix the issue.
You experience a long domain logon time in Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 after you deploy Group Policy preferences
to the computer
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2561285/en-us
In addition, regarding group policy and logon impact, the following article can be referred to for more information.
Group Policy and Logon Impact
http://blogs.technet.com/b/grouppolicy/archive/2013/05/23/group-policy-and-logon-impact.aspx
Best regards,
Frank Shen

Does using Group Policy Preferences to deploy printers require the print driver to be pre-installed?

I'm trying to prepare our school system for Windows 7 (we currently use XP). I would like to use the new Group Policy Preferences method of deploying printers. I pushed out the XP client side extensions through WSUS. In my test environment, I added the shared printer in group policy preferences. My XP machine had the printers show up automatically, but my Windows 7 machine did not. I realized that I had previously connected a printer of the same type to my XP machine before and the drivers were already installed. To test this theory, I manually connected the shared printers to the Windows 7 machine, deleted them, then logged off and back on. Now the printers are showing up from group policy. My question is does using group policy preferences to deploy printers require the print driver to be pre-installed? If not, then what am I doing wrong? If so, is there a way to work around this? Thanks for your help.
EDIT: To clarify, I am using the share method in GPP. This is the error message I get in the event log:
The user 'PRINTERNAME' preference item in the 'win7 printer test {946461A1-27F8-406F-A0B3-0A1A05AF34F6}' Group Policy object did not apply because it failed with error code '0x80070bcb The specified printer driver was not found on the system and needs to be downloaded.' This error was suppressed.

This link have a description of resolution:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725938.aspx
Open the GPMC.
Open the GPO where the printer connections are deployed, and navigate to Computer Configuration, Policies, Administrative Templates, Control
Panel, and thenPrinters.
Note
The Point and Print Restrictions setting can also be found under User Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\Control Panel\Printers.
This policy is ignored by Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, but is enforced by earlier editions of Windows including Windows XP with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, and Windows Server 2008. We recommend that you change
this policy setting in both locations so that all down-level clients have a consistent experience.
Right-click Point and Print Restrictions, and then click Properties.
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Users can only point and print to machines in their forest
In the When installing drivers for a new connection box, select Do not show warning or elevation prompt.
Scroll down, and in the When updating drivers for an existing connection box, select Show warning only.
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[Forum FAQ] Group Policy Preferences Scheduled Tasks Item not working when the option Run whether user is logged on or not is selected

Scenario:
We use one of the following Group Policy Preferences Scheduled Tasks item to deploy a task to clients:
Computer Configuration -> Control Panel Settings -> Scheduled Tasks -> New -> Scheduled Task (At least Windows 7)
Computer Configuration -> Control Panel Settings -> Scheduled Tasks -> New -> Immediate Task (At least Windows 7)
User Configuration -> Control Panel Settings -> Scheduled Tasks -> New -> Scheduled Task (At least Windows 7)
User Configuration -> Control Panel Settings -> Scheduled Tasks -> New -> Immediate Task (At least Windows 7)
(Note that on some platforms, "At least Windows 7" is replaced with "Windows Vista and later.")
After designating a user account to run the task, we select “Run whether user is logged on or not” option, and “The Do not store password…”
check box is automatically grayed out (See Figure 1).
Figure 1
After finishing configuring the task item, on a client, we run command
gpupdate/force to forcefully update group policy. However, on the client, when we check if the task is listed in Task Scheduler snap-in, the task is not displayed, and when we run
gpresult/h report.html to collect group policy result for troubleshooting, we see an error as similar as shown in the following figure (Figure 2).
Figure 2
Cause:
To make the scheduled task run whether the user is logged on or not, we need to store the password of the designated user account. However, for the content of the scheduled
task item is stored in Sysvol where it’s not safe to store passwords, this function has been deprecated.
Workaround:
We can run the task with system account
NT Authority\System, or we can use specific user accounts to run the task when the given user is logged on. (See Figure 3)
Figure 3
Reference:
MS14-025: Vulnerability in Group Policy Preferences could allow elevation of privilege: May 13, 2014
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2962486
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Hello Everyone,
Succeeded !!!!!!!
Even i was struggling with this same Problem to execute a batch via Window scheduler and set the setting to "Run whether the user is logged in or not".
I tried many time but the batch runs with " Run
whether user is logged on" and not with "Run
whether user is logged on or not".
what i discovered is that there was one mapped drive
path in my batch file which was not the complete path like y:/AR.qvw actually what i did i changed that map path to the complete path like \\servnamename\d$\AR.qvw and the batch executed successfully with the setting "Run
whether user is logged on or not"
The
conclusion is that check the dependency of the script on external resources because when you check this option "Run
whether user is logged on or not" It actually conflicts. This my discovery.
If
you have any question write me on [email protected]
Thanks
& Regards,
Arun

Cannot Copy File with Group Policy Preferences

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> Computers" has read access. Listing the actual file name in the
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...unless the path ends with an "\", it IS a file name, so if you had
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Group Policy "Restricted Groups" (local groups) using group policy preferences

I was recently tasked a solution with creating a group policy to manage RDP user access to a set of Active Directory computer objects.
Part of the solution was to create a policy so that this would only apply a specific security group(users) to a specific set of Active Directory computer objects within the OU to which it was applied so that other machines
and/or user accounts in this OU remain un affected by this policy.
The policy was to be able to include multiple sets of Security groups(users) for the associated machines isolating those security groups(users) to only their sets of Active Directory computer objects.
Reduce the requirement to create multiple group policies to apply different "Local Group"/"Restricted groups" management for computer objects in the domain.
I thouhgt about using System based policies and creating different WMI filters to target sets of AD Computer objects, but came to the conclusion this would not help due to the limited of WMI quries I would be able to create for a standard
Image.
So I then thought about group policy preferences and came up with the solution
I created a new Group policy and created a new item for the local group, in this instance but not limited to "Remote Desktop users (built-in)" and added the security group(users). In my case I did not need to use the "delete
all member users" or "delete all member groups" as I wanted other groups in this local group for the computer objects to remain intact.
Then what I did is set the "item-level-target" setting from "the common tab" on the GPP and set it to the security group which containd the AD computer objects the user accounts required access to. I then did a couple of standard
tests to confirm the local security group(users) appeared only on the machine in the item level target security group and applied to no other machines in the outside of SOM.
So with this in place, if I needed to create any other entries for different groups and access to specific machines all I need to do is create a new GPP item within this policy.
Being mindful that system policies settings if applied to same OU will take preceedence over GPP settings....
Thought I would just share this in-case anyone else has had similar requests/thoughts and or has other methods that they have used that they would like to share.
I am not sure either on the limit of entries that GPP have either so if anyone does know please post and possible links?
I have struggled to find an answer, however it could be that I am not asking the right question!

good sharing...
Best,
Howtodo

Group Policy Preferences Shortcut issues ( event ID 1085 )

I am hoping someone will be able to help me with a problem that is causing our users a headache
We have a Windows 2008 SP2 terminal server farm ( 1 gateway, 2 Terminal servers TS1 and TS2 ), we also use Group Policy Preferences to deliver app shortcuts to different AD user groups.
TS1 and TS2 were built from the same image. On TS1 users logon and get all the icons they are entitled to, on TS2 it is random to whether they get their shortcuts or not.
Both TS are rebooted daily and I have scripted removing any local profiles incase it was something left behind.
Checking the event Logs on TS2 I see several errors that appear to relate to Group Policy and correspond to when users have connected in.
any help with this issue would be appreciated.
Here is the information from the System log:
Log Name: System
Source: Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy
Date: 05/12/2014 15:32:26
Event ID: 1085
Task Category: None
Level: Warning
Keywords:
User: Username
Computer: TerminalServer
Description:
Windows failed to apply the Group Policy Shortcuts settings. Group Policy Shortcuts settings might have its own log file. Please click on the "More information" link.
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<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
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<Data Name="ProcessingTimeInMilliseconds">6047</Data>
<Data Name="ErrorCode">2147942413</Data>
<Data Name="ErrorDescription">The data is invalid. </Data>
<Data Name="DCName”>\\OurDomain</Data>
<Data Name="ExtensionName">Group Policy Shortcuts</Data>
<Data Name="ExtensionId">{C418DD9D-0D14-4efb-8FBF-CFE535C8FAC7}</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

> <Data Name="ErrorDescription">The data is invalid. </Data>
Delete the history XML.
Martin
Mal ein
GUTES Buch über GPOs lesen?
NO THEY ARE NOT EVIL, if you know what you are doing:
Good or bad GPOs?
And if IT bothers me - coke bottle design refreshment :))

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