Windows 2008 R2 group policy not applied on some of the computers

Dear All,
I have windows 2008 r2 as domain controller and configured group policy. when I am changing existing group policy most of the computers not affecting with update policy.
is there any server or any other method required to configure?
every time i need to update group policy manually on computers.
pls help
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This was in another post felt it need its on post and subject.
11.2.3 has help, but now on device that have 11.2.3 the security policy is
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[When more than one Windows Group policy is applied to a device, the
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>>> On Friday, March 15, 2013 at 12:34 PM, in message
<[email protected]>, Scott Malugin<[email protected]> wrote:
> This was in another post felt it need its on post and subject.
>
>
> 11.2.3 has help, but now on device that have 11.2.3 the security policy
> is
> not applying. I have 4 device I'm testing on one was a clean instill of
> 11.2.3 the other 3 were upgraded, out of all 4 only one the security
> policy
> is applying right. Where would the security policy be store when it is
> applied to a device. Is their a better way to apply security policy.
>
>
> I found that the gpttmpl.inf file is not being copy to the
> [C:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\Machine\Microsoft\ Windows NT\SecEdit]
> folder and did confirm that it is in the zcm meachine cache folder
> [C:\Program Files
> (x86)\Novell\ZENworks\bin\handlers\CacheFiles\Work stationCache\GroupPoli
> cy\M
>
> achine\Microsoft\Windows NT\SecEdit]. I manual copy it to the SecEdit
> folder
> logged off back on and then did get the Security Options Settings set
> properly.
>
> So why is it not copying it over, the Registry.pol file is and all other
> group policy are working (so far). And on the one computer that Security
> Options is working right on and running 11.2.3 the gpttmpl.inf is not in
> the
> [C:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\Machine\Microsoft\ Windows NT\SecEdit]
> folder ether and I have checked computers that are still on 11.2.0 and
> the
> Security Settings are applied but the gpttmpl.inf file in not in the
> [C:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\Machine\Microsoft\ Windows NT\SecEdit].
> Is
> ZEN suppose to copy gpttmpl.inf to the system32 group policy folder and
> if
> so can this be fix? I really need Security Settings to apply.
>
> Hope this makes sense.
>
> And I have this problem on both 32 & 64 bit windows 7
> I don't know if this affects Windows XP because I don't have any
> Security
> Settings for XP set.
>
>
> Thanks
> Scott

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On 7/31/2014 8:26 AM, shazzypoos wrote:
>
> I should add that when you looked at the "Click for Details" to the
> right of the Effective "Failed" status the message is "Policy
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> found"
>
> Hmmmm! Currently in closest server rules there is only the server for
> the site it's on set - we do not want it to come back to the Primary for
> policies. As I say, this was working before the weekend upgrade. Thanks!
>
>
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package we have setup to reverse the settings. I then reassociated the
workstation with my worstation policy package which is set to run when the
desktop is active. But in the scheduler it showed that the workstation
policy still ran at user login. If I look at the policy package in Console
One it does show that it is set to run when the desktop is active and not at
user login. So I am not sure why this is. I hope that I won't have to delete
this package and recreate to resolve this. Any suggestions are greatly
appreciated.
Steve
"Rolf Lidvall" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Maybe this issue?
>
>
http://www.novell.com/documentation/...2.html#aesgb5w
>
> "HINT: Because the Windows desktop files finish loading before group
policy
> settings are loaded, some group policies in the ZfD 4 workstation package
> might exhibit odd behavior if they are scheduled to run at user login.
> Specifically, any changes to desktop settings (for example, hide My
Network
> Place, hide all icons on desktop, etc.) will not occur, neither will any
> programs that you have scheduled to run at user login through use of a
login
> script. If the user logs off and back on, the settings display correctly.
>
> To prevent this behavior, do not configure group policies in the
Workstation
> package to run at user login. Instead, configure them to run at system
> startup, on a daily basis, or on some other regular schedule."
>
> Regards
> Rolf Lidvall
> Swedish Radio (Ltd)
>
>

Windows 2008 R2 group policy not applied on some of the computers

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