GP Step-by-Step for Dummies

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I need someone to confirm my steps below:

Stage I
1) Open Active Directory
2) Create a NEW OU in root directory
3) Create a NEW GP within the new OU
4) Create a NEW user within the NEW OU
5) Goto the NEW GP I created and added a tick in "no
over ride" as well as "block policy inharance".
6) Disabled background change within new GP
7) Waited a few minutes for the policy to take action
8) Ran gpresult on client "the policy object does not
exist".

Stage II
1) Open Active Directory
2) Right Click on my Domain Controller OU
3) Edited GP to disable background changing
4) Waited a few moments
5) Rebooted by PDC
6) Background tab is gone

So Stage II seemed to work properly (on my PDC), but
Stage I does not (on the client). When creating a NEW OU
and GP within, do I need to do anything else to make the
clients use this new GP? Also, since neither Stage I or
Stage II seemed to affect the client machine, what GP is
it getting it's GP rights from?

-chow
 
Hello.

1) Make sure dns is correct setup, (This means you should be available to
ping the full ad domain name by FQDN like ping company.com and get response)

2) Do you have more than one Domain Controller? If yes, then make sure
SYSVOL content are the same on both, also make sure them replicate fine.

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Christoffer Andersson
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Well after being not able to ping my DC, I verified my DC
had DNS configured right. Then reviewed the clients DNS
settings, WRONG. I had it set to DHCP. Which there is
currently no DHCP server for this 2 node test center. So
needless to say, the GP is now taking effect on the
client as it should.

thank you

-chow
 
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