Undo Group Policy changes? - Help!

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Guest

Hi,

I was trying to set up group policy to lock down a machine I am using for
Terminal Services, and I have apparently locked down my entire domain. I
can't even get to the Group Policy Management on the Domain Controller (says
it's disabled by policy). Is there a way to get into it, so I can figure out
what I did, and undo it? I need any advice anyone has.

Mike
 
Hi Mike,

So I think you have to tell what exactly you did (in details), and what you
now do (in details) and the result (or error). Otherwise I cannot think of a
way to help.

br,
Denis
 
Denis,

Thanks for the reply. Luckily I was able to fix the problem after sending
this note, but what happend was I created a new policy that was supposed to
apply to only one machine that I was setting up for running terminal
services. However, I applied it to the entire domain instead, and suddenly
found myself (and all my users) locked down, and I couldn't even log onto my
primary domain controller.
However, luckily, one of the secondary domain controllers hadn't had the
policy applied yet, and I was able to get into group policy and remove all
the settings I had changed, and reapply. Then the waiting game commenced to
see if the changes I made would propagate out to all the machines or not, and
luckily it did, and after a few reboots, I'm back to normal as best I can
tell.
With that said, are their any backdoors or administrative commands you can
install on a workstation to get to group policy management for editing
purposes in case something like this happens again?

Thanks,

Mike
 
Hi Mike,

You are so lucky.

It's hard to say if there's any backdoor. It really depends on what you did
(exactly) and you think of any workarounds out there. That's why I asked
what you did.

I was once locked out by myself in GP, and luckily I could think of a way
out. But don't ask me what happened, I bet I forgot it completely.

br,
Denis
 
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