GPO Application

Discussion in 'Active Directory Exams' started by Fergal1982, Jun 11, 2011.

  1. Fergal1982

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    Hey guys, I created a new OU in my (newly created) domain, called: Servers. I went into GPO management and modified the Default Domain Policy, adding the HOME\TFS_Admins group to the Administrators group via the Restricted Groups option in the Computer Policies section.

    I know bugger all about GPO, I have to be honest, but my understanding from googling around was that this should cause the local Administrators group on the servers in this OU to populate with the HOME\TFS_Admins group.

    However this doesnt appear to be the case, even with multiple logins. Its not a replication issue as there's only one DC. Can anyone suggest what I'm missing?
     
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    Is the GPO at least being applied to the servers? On the server open up command line and type gpresult. The GPO should be listed there.
     
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    Opps, just realised you have modified the default domain policy. Perhaps create a new GPO and link it to the OU that has your server computer accounts in it.
     
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    Actually sorry, Thats a lie. I had originally written something else (I had added Home\Administrator to the default domain policy, but when I realised I'd added the user rather than the group, I removed that portion of the text).

    I have a new Policy containing the addition to the restricted group. I did try gpresult, but I think I had issues with it to be honest, let me fire it up again and see.
     
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    Ah yes, fired up "gpresult /scope computer /v" as the normal user, I get access denied, trying the same in a cmd prompt running as home\administrator gives me an error about home\administrator not having RSOP data.

    Got it working when I logged in directly to the machine using home\administrator. The GPO is applying, but it turns out that its a PEBKAC error: I mistyped the group name as "Administrator" not "Administrators". Oops.

    I am right in thinking that if I create a GPO with this in it, and also add Domain Admins to the same in the default GPO, they should complement each other, shouldn't they - rather than overwriting each other?
     
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    I believe so mate as the old membership of the loacl admin group should be intact anyways.
     
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