"Jim in Cleveland" wrote:

> Hope someone can help me with this question.  Recently, we had two Windows
> 2000 servers go down.  Both were Domain controllers.  They were replaced with
> two new Windows 2003 servers.  I want to load GPMC on the two new servers but
> I'm not sure how they are going to affect the GPOs that are currently in
> place.  Will loading GPMC do anything to the current GPOs?  Once loaded, will
> I have to do any configuration to the current GPOs or will they continue to
> work the way they are currently set up?
>
> Jim

"Christian Lamparth" <ChristianLampa***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:B7154383-AA5F-4A49-8338-83DF51757872@microsoft.com...
>
> The GPO will strill work however in order to edit a existing gpo you need
> to
> make you have gpo loaded on every dc. or you get a truncate string error
> on
> the dc that dont have gpmc on it.
> "Jim in Cleveland" wrote:
>
>> Hope someone can help me with this question.  Recently, we had two
>> Windows
>> 2000 servers go down.  Both were Domain controllers.  They were replaced
>> with
>> two new Windows 2003 servers.  I want to load GPMC on the two new servers
>> but
>> I'm not sure how they are going to affect the GPOs that are currently in
>> place.  Will loading GPMC do anything to the current GPOs?  Once loaded,
>> will
>> I have to do any configuration to the current GPOs or will they continue
>> to
>> work the way they are currently set up?
>>
>> Jim

"Cary Shultz" wrote:

> Christian,
>
> Is it the fact that the MS GPMC is not loaded on that specific server or is
> it due to the following MSKB article:
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=842933
>
> I ask because I just started playing with WIN2003 about two weeks ago and
> had this error on my Exchange Server.  I have a test lab with, originally,
> one WIN2003 Domain Controller, one WIN2003 Member Server running Exchange
> Server 2003 and two Windows XP Pro SP2 clients.  I installed the GPMC first
> on the two WINXP Pro SP2 clients and then used the GPMC from one of the XP
> Pro clients to create a whole slew of GPOs.  I then tried to edit some of
> these GPO on the Exchange Server and received this error.  I immediately
> thereafter installed SP1 for WIN2003 on the Member Server and then tried to
> edit the exact same GPOs and had no problems.
>
> --
> Cary W. Shultz
> Roanoke, VA  24012
> "Christian Lamparth" <ChristianLampa***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:B7154383-AA5F-4A49-8338-83DF51757872@microsoft.com...
> >
> > The GPO will strill work however in order to edit a existing gpo you need
> > to
> > make you have gpo loaded on every dc. or you get a truncate string error
> > on
> > the dc that dont have gpmc on it.
> > "Jim in Cleveland" wrote:
> >
> >> Hope someone can help me with this question.  Recently, we had two
> >> Windows
> >> 2000 servers go down.  Both were Domain controllers.  They were replaced
> >> with
> >> two new Windows 2003 servers.  I want to load GPMC on the two new servers
> >> but
> >> I'm not sure how they are going to affect the GPOs that are currently in
> >> place.  Will loading GPMC do anything to the current GPOs?  Once loaded,
> >> will
> >> I have to do any configuration to the current GPOs or will they continue
> >> to
> >> work the way they are currently set up?
> >>
> >> Jim
>
>
>

"Cary Shultz" wrote:

> Christian,
>
> Is it the fact that the MS GPMC is not loaded on that specific server or is
> it due to the following MSKB article:
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=842933
>
> I ask because I just started playing with WIN2003 about two weeks ago and
> had this error on my Exchange Server.  I have a test lab with, originally,
> one WIN2003 Domain Controller, one WIN2003 Member Server running Exchange
> Server 2003 and two Windows XP Pro SP2 clients.  I installed the GPMC first
> on the two WINXP Pro SP2 clients and then used the GPMC from one of the XP
> Pro clients to create a whole slew of GPOs.  I then tried to edit some of
> these GPO on the Exchange Server and received this error.  I immediately
> thereafter installed SP1 for WIN2003 on the Member Server and then tried to
> edit the exact same GPOs and had no problems.
>
> --
> Cary W. Shultz
> Roanoke, VA  24012
> "Christian Lamparth" <ChristianLampa***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:B7154383-AA5F-4A49-8338-83DF51757872@microsoft.com...
> >
> > The GPO will strill work however in order to edit a existing gpo you need
> > to
> > make you have gpo loaded on every dc. or you get a truncate string error
> > on
> > the dc that dont have gpmc on it.
> > "Jim in Cleveland" wrote:
> >
> >> Hope someone can help me with this question.  Recently, we had two
> >> Windows
> >> 2000 servers go down.  Both were Domain controllers.  They were replaced
> >> with
> >> two new Windows 2003 servers.  I want to load GPMC on the two new servers
> >> but
> >> I'm not sure how they are going to affect the GPOs that are currently in
> >> place.  Will loading GPMC do anything to the current GPOs?  Once loaded,
> >> will
> >> I have to do any configuration to the current GPOs or will they continue
> >> to
> >> work the way they are currently set up?
> >>
> >> Jim
>
>
>