Situation:
Multiple DC’s running 2003 R2 SP2
One domain
Clients running XP SP2
Default Domain Policy is untouched
The problem:
A Custom GPO with Internet Explorer 6.1 settings, such as Starting page and Proxy settings. These settings have changed and have become more complex. So I decided to setup a new GPO for a select test group.
This seemed to work after several dozen logons from various workstations, so it was time to go live.
The old GPO was emptied and deleted and replaced with the new one. However, the old settings are still being displayed. A GPO Result query returned the settings coming from a GPO with one of those {FE525-….} names.
Now since this is a fairly large network I blamed it on replication issues, but this turned out to be a wild goose chase because every other (minor) change to GPO’s replicated like the wind.
Since this wasn’t a really big problem and there is other work to be done I decided to let it rest for a couple of days, but even after that the queries still returned the same.
I decided to get the old GPO back, which I backed up, and remove the newly made.
It loaded to the clients like it should. So I made the necessary changes in that GPO just to see what would happen.
Nothing! Not one thing changed. GPO Result queries kept returning the old values coming from the newly edited and correct GPO.
It has me stumped.