Server Lockdown !!

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Mark Whitefield

Hi,

A colleague of mine has recently installed Windows 2003 Small Business
Server and decided to enforce a tight Group Policy which restricts
access to the Command Prompt, MMC and other useful stuff... All very
well, however, he now cannot tweak this policy as he's locked the
bloody server down!!
This is the only server in the domain and serves Win XP clients. Is it
possible to:
1)disable the policy using secedit or gpupdate??
2)Get at the policy from one of the XP clients in order to disable it
and move the server out?
3)Write a batch file that can be run on the server to disable the
policy?

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Many thanks...
 
Thanks Stephen - but he's even locked out regedit!
Will rebuild server from scratch!!
 
OK. It may also be worth trying to manage the Group Policy remotley by creating a
local user account on another network computer that has the same logon name/password
as a domain administrator and then logon to that machine locally with that account,
run mmc, select Group Policy, select another computer which would be the locked out
computer and then try to manage Group Policy that way. --- Steve
 
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