First let me apologize if this is the stupidest question of all time.
Next let me introduce myself, my name is Craig and I teach in a school in Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada... 600 miles above the Arctic Circle. There are no techs up here to help me with my problem! I have the task of setting up our new server running windows 2003. I have NEVER setup nor worked on a server before! I have to learn everything as I go.
That being said my problem may be something that I don't see, maybe I created my users, groups or OU wrong. But the problem that I am having now is group policies.
I have installed the Group Policy Management Console snap-on (or is that snap-in). And here is what I have done.
I created an OU called school this was created right under my domain. Then I created another OU called students and another on test.
domain
- school
-- students
--- test
Then in the "active directory users and computers" I created a user in the test OU called tester. This user use a profile set to \\server\profiles$\%USERNAME% this roaming profile work fine.
SO, I want to create a group policy that controls my users, so I can set proxy, home pages... you know group policy stuff!
So in the GPMC I right click "Group Policy Objects" and go to "new". Give my new policy a name "GPO test".
Next I right click my OU “test” and "Link an existing GPO", and select "GPO test" from the list.
The only thing I have enabled in this GPO is
-user
--admin templates
---start menu and taskbar
I have removed the user name from the start menu
So just to summarize. I have a user created in a OU. That OU have a GPO linked to it. I would assume that when I logon that should work right?? Well that does not happen. nothing happens. This all started from me wanting to setup folder redirection (which is a group policy thing) so my students can stop moaning about login times!!
This problem has been going on for a little while now and I am posting madly everywhere for help. I have learned quite alot since starting down this road!
I had installed the DNS wrong, when I checked my event viewer I had errors everywhere! My DNS was messed up. So I removed the AD and DNS, reinstalled the services, fixed my issue (I forgot to forward the DNS) and now after two days I have no errors!! I do have some warnings in the system; I will try to figure them out now.
I log onto the computer using my tester account. I can still see my user name on my start menu! I run gpresult and the result is
QUOTE
info: the policy object does not exist
I also tried gpupdate /force BUT still nothing happens!!
I am still in GREAT need of help here. I am not looking for someone to do it for me... just some guidance