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Windows Server 2003 Group Policy

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by greenelantern

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I have been trying to get Folder Redirection working, so I followed the Microsoft Tech support's instructions (online stuff, no phone calls). I played with it until I was fully exasperated. I have accessed the Group Policy Editor by right-clicking the domain on the Domain Users and Groups screen and going to properties. I tried to create a policy set and had no luck, so I went on to edit the default domain policy (I know, I will likely regret that). I wondered if maybe the group policy wasn't getting passed on to the computers or profiles it was supposed to be controlling, so I added some Internet Explorer policies to test it. None of these came through (I tried something obvious like controlling the homepage and adding some favorites). How do I get the group policy to propagate to the new computer?

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by why me worry?

if you don't know what an Organization Unit is.

Consultant my ass! People like you give consultants like me a bad reputation and make the industry look pathetic.

by cg it

an OU is a container to collect users or computers to which you apply the GPO.

If you didn't apply your GPO to an OU, that could be why your GPO doesn't work.

by greenelantern

I have used OUs without knowing their name, and made the connection that I couldn't just randomly make a group policy. The GP is applied to the OU for the domain. In the event viewer I am getting event error 15 and 1053. "Automatic certificate enrollment for local system failed to contact the active directory (0x8007054b). The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted.
Enrollment will not be performed."
AND
"Windows cannot determine the user or computer name. (The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted. ). Group Policy processing aborted."
The computers concerned are running Windows Server 2003 R2 and Windows XP SP2. Any other ideas?

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