Group Policy computer settings not applied to Windows 7 Computers
October 28, 2009 1 Comment
We started moving a few people to Windows 7 this week and I discovered that none of the computers were getting the computer GPO settings applied. My company tends to keep domain computers in the default AD “Computers” container.
It appears that Windows 7 computers left in the default “Computers” container will not recieve the computer settings from any GPO’s that would otherwise be applied.
I haven’t been able to confirm this as a “by design” feature of the new OS but it is definitely the case for me.
Once I moved the Windows 7 computers into an appropriate OU and rebooted them computer settings were applied with no issue.
I guess Microsoft finally got around to actually enforcing one of their best practices.
Interesting.
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