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by blichtig

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How do I check to see what changes have been made to group policy on a Windows Server 2003. I have a client which the network admin got fired and they have profile issues such as the default printer does not stick, user settigs change in Outlook and Internet Explorer settings do not stick after rebooting the computer and logging into the domain. Any help would be appreciated.

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by p.j.hutchison

What we do is save a report of the existing policies every month. Then if ia policy changes we can compare the changes with the report from the previous month.
Otherwise other than who or when it was changed, there is no way to determine what has changed.

by blichtig

the default printer does not stick, user settigs change in Outlook and Internet Explorer settings do not stick after rebooting the computer and logging into the domain.

by p.j.hutchison

1. Make sure that mandatory profiles have not been enabled for new/existing users (look for ntuser.man files).
2. Use the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) rather than the other gpedit.msc to look at settings:
a) User Configuration\Windows Settings\Internet Explorer Maintenance (for home page, connection settings)
b) User configuration\Adminitstrative Templates\Internet Explorer for other IE settings.
c) User or Computer Configuration\Deployed Printers or login scripts for deployed printers.

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