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by micky martins

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Environment single domain in mixed mode only one Domain Controller.

I am unable to open my default domain policy or domain security policy from my Domain Controller either through Administrative Tools or Active Directory Users and Computers> Container> Group Policy> Default Domain Policy.

I get the same error message Failed to op the group policy object. you may not have appropriate rights
Details The system cannot find the path specified.

How do I go about fixing this?

I know this hasn't anything to do with security permissions.

I suspected that SysVol folder is messed up and DC can't find the GPT file (Group Policy Template). THIS IS WHAT I HAVE INSIDE

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by joseph moore

TechNet article Q253268 said the reason for this error is if one of the following folder structures is/are missing:

%SystemRoot%\Sysvol\Sysvol\DomainName

%SystemRoot%\Sysvol\Sysvol\DomainName\Policies

%SystemRoot%\Sysvol\Sysvol\DomainName\Policies\{GUID}

%SystemRoot%\Sysvol\Sysvol\DomainName\Policies\{GUID}\Machine

%SystemRoot%\Sysvol\Sysvol\DomainName\Policies\{GUID}\User

The article has a fix for you. Here is a link to it:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q253268
(please remove spaces)

Hope this helps.

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