Workstation loosing policies

Question

Hello NG
I have a serious problem with ZCM11 policies
I defined grouppolicies on ZCM 11 and additional Policies for Office. I
explain you how i did configure these policies.
On a windows 7 gpo administration workstation i copied the office2010 admx
files in the c:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions folder. In this case i was able to
configure the Office policies.
With ZCM i created two policies. One for standard configuration, as "hide
standard programs from standar menu" etc etc. the second one was a Office
policiy where i defined different settings for the applications.
I published these policies to OUs. ZCM11 before it upload the policies to
its webserver it will pack these policies as zip file and place somewhere on
the ZCM Server. I suppose, that when the user login to workstation, the
zipfile will be extracted to the workstation with the settings i made....
anyway.....
The problem is the following. The workstations don't have the additional
admx files on the c:\Windows\PolicyDefinition folder. But the policies were
set correct. I mean Office settings and global GPO settings were set.
Yesterday about 10 machines did lost all GPO settings. I checked with
gpedit.msc if there was policies active. None of the definied policies was
active. and all settings were lost.
What could be the cause of this issue?
Ramon

Answer 1

Hello Shaun
When I understand you correctly, the ADMX files are not needet to be copied
on the workstation. Correct?
My second problem. The Policies are effective. The problem was, that the
workstations did have the policies, then at once, during user were working,
the workstation did loose the policies. Have a look on these two policies
On the GPO on ZCC I don't have some Message logs.
Policy type: Windows Group Policy
Size: (Compute)
Version: 1
Enabled: Yes
Number of errors not acknowledged: 8
Number of warnings not acknowledged: 0
GUID: fd35bb8b437802cbfb8db6e9425627fb
Administrator Notes: (Edit)
Policy Status
RefreshRefresh
Assignment Status
Assignment Type Targeted Devices Effective Devices
Not Effective Pending
User 301 40
0 N/A
Device 0 0
0 0
Enforcement Status
Assignment Type Devices Pending Devices Succeeded
Devices Failed
User 0 40
0
Device 0 0
0
Policy type: Windows Group Policy
Size: (Compute)
Version: 5
Enabled: Yes
Number of errors not acknowledged: 8
Number of warnings not acknowledged: 0
GUID: 36ce6715d1db11d094d7a59ab361d63a
Administrator Notes: (Edit)
Policy Status
RefreshRefresh
Assignment Status
Assignment Type Targeted Devices Effective Devices
Not Effective Pending
User 301 41
0 N/A
Device 0 0
0 0
Enforcement Status
Assignment Type Devices Pending Devices Succeeded
Devices Failed
User 0 41
0
Device 0 0
0
Ramon
"Shaun Pond" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Ramon,
2 different issues: ADMX (and ADM) files are necessary for gpedit to
create the settings, they are not needed for the policy to be applied.
So, to the second problem - your policies not applying, have you
checked that the policy shows as effective? Have you looked at the
status in ZCC?
Shaun Pond