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Microsoft® Windows® Group Policy Guide
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Microsoft® Windows® Group Policy Guide

by The Microsoft Group Policy Team, Darren Mar-Elia, Derek Melber, William R. Stanek
June 2005
Intermediate to advanced
800 pages
24h 32m
English
Microsoft Press
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Group Policy Settings Are Not Being Applied Due to Infrastructure Problems

Because the final application of Group Policy settings depends heavily on the domain controllers replicating the GPOs, there are many areas where the process can fail. This is not to say that Active Directory is unstable; rather, there are many areas that can be configured incorrectly, which can break the application of Group Policy settings.

This section focuses on the many aspects of configuration that are on the server side or for which the server is responsible. Smaller problems will arise due to the server, but we will look only at the most common problems that make Group Policy fail to apply to clients.

Domain Controllers Are Not Available

It is common for Group Policy ...

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