No longer see "Internet Explorer Maintenance" in Group Policy Management Console

Question

I am trying to configure Internet Explorer favorites on a GPO that I have already constructed.  I had already successfully created the GPO many months ago and wanted to go back and check on some things.
However in the GPMC when I navigate to User Configuration-->Policies-->Windows Settings, I no longer see "Internet Explorer Maintenance" listed.  This is where I had previously configured Internet Explorer favorites.
I uninstalled and reinstalled GPM using these instructions
http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/how-to-install-the-group-policy-management-in-windows-7/ but this did not help.
Previously I had two Windows XP computers in the OU that this GPO was applied to.  I had no problems at all configuring it and getting the rules and favorites to apply to these two computers.  I just recently upgraded one of the computers to Windows
7 and used the same machine name for the computer.  The computer gets some of the rules applied to it but not all.  In particular the IE favorites are not being applied which led me to check the policy in the GPMC.  However, as stated before
I cannot even see "Internet Explorer Maintenance" which has me confused on what to do next.  Please help.

Answer 1

Am 29.03.2013 14:15, schrieb FuFighter:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <Shortcut clsid="{4F2F7C55-2790-433e-8127-0739D1CFA327}"
> userContext="1" name="Google" status="Google" image="0"
> changed="2013-03-29 13:00:44"
> uid="{648046B5-4019-4F32-8F0E-E691EA54E125}"><Properties pidl=""
> targetType="URL" action="C" comment="" shortcutKey="0" startIn=""
> arguments="" iconIndex="0" targetPath="http://www.google.com"
> iconPath="" window=""
> shortcutPath="%CommonFavoritesDir%\Google"/></Shortcut>
I'm too tired at the moment to check all you already did, so just let me
ask some further questions on that item:
This is a user or a computer item? If it is a user item and "run in
logged on users context" is checked, I believe it will fail, because a
non administrator cannot add all users favorites.
I'm unaware whether all users favorites works at all - never used it...
For further clarification, I'd enable GPP debug logging:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2008/07/18/enabling-group-policy-preferences-debug-logging-using-the-rsat.aspx
NO THEY ARE NOT EVIL, if you know what you are doing:
Good or bad GPOs?
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