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by shooten2

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Ok, here's the deal... I just purchased some new Dell (Win XP Pro) computers for my office network (Win 2K3 servers). I'm using group policy to manage the settings on the workstations - the same policies have been in place for about 4 years now. The problem is, the policies don't seem to be applying properly on the new computers. I'm putting them in the same OUs with existing computers, but using the same username, I get different results logging onto a new pc as opposed to logging onto one of the existing pcs. I'm thinking there's probably some issue with the local security policy on the new computers, but I haven't found the problem yet. Anybody have any suggestions?

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by dumphrey

with several HP machines. It seems to only happen on machines with an OEM (HP in my case) copy of XP. But, this is limited to 3 machines...they just all happen to be identical XP HP's...

by kjell_andorsen

I had pretty much the exact same issue with a couple Dell Latitude D531 laptops. All bought in the same batch with identical specs. I worked with Dell and MS for months and could never find a resolution.

by cg it

and how did that computer account get into the OU you wanted?

Did you drag and drop the account?

by shooten2

I created the account when I joined the new computer to my domain. By default, it was placed into a generic "computers" OU - from there, I used drag-and-drop to put it into the desired OU.

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