Even though I enabled logging and the logging directory is created on the XP SP3 workstation, there isn't an actual log file created. Group Policy Shortcuts failed due to the error listed below and failed to log resultant set of policy information.
Additional information may have been logged. Is that an undocumented "feature"? Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Windows Server TechCenter. Sign in. United States English.
Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. The default value is ten hours. The default value is seven days. The default value is five minutes. This default configuration forces users to change their passwords every six weeks, and compels them to use passwords that are not easy to guess. Policies like Minimum Password Age and Enforce Password History prevent the users from working around the password requirements by reusing the same few passwords and repeatedly changing passwords over a short time.
If you want to increase the password security on your network, you can modify these defaults by requiring longer passwords and more frequent changes. You can also relax security by disabling some or all of these policies. Tip Windows account policies have three possible states: enabled, disabled, and undefined. The difference between disabled and undefined comes into play when multiple Group Policy Objects apply to the same objects and the Windows operating system must resolve policy conflicts.
An enabled policy always overrides an undefined instance of the same policy, but a policy that is explicitly disabled might override an enabled instance of the same policy. You can apply the following targeting items to preference items:. Many Group Policy preference items share common options. Each preference item displays these options on the Common tab. The common options are consistent among the preference extensions and allow you to control the error handling for a particular extension, the security context the extension uses when processing user configuration settings, the scope and application of preference items, and item-level targeting, which provides filtering at the preference item level, in addition to Group Policy filtering.
By default, a failing preference item does not prevent other preference items in the same extension from processing.
If the Stop processing items in this extension if an error occurs on this item option is selected, a failing preference item prevents remaining preference items within the extension from processing. Preference extensions start processing preference items from the bottom of the list and work their way to the top. Preference items successfully applied prior to the failing preference item are applied.
The preference extension only stops processing preference items that follow the failing preference item. In this security context, the preference extension is limited to environment variables and system resources available only to the computer.
If the Run in logged-on user's security context option is selected, it changes the security context under which the preference item is processed. The preference extension processes preference items in the security context of the logged-on user. This allows the preference extension to access resources as the user rather than the computer. This can be especially important when using drive maps or other preferences in which the computer may not have permissions to resources or when using environment variables.
The value of many environment variables differs when evaluated in a security context other than the logged-on user. Group Policy applies policy settings and preference items to users and computers. You determine which users and computers receive these items by linking one or more Group Policy objects GPOs to Active Directory sites, domains, or organizational units.
User and computer objects that reside in these containers receive policy settings and preference items defined in the linked GPOs because they are within the scope of the GPO. Unlike policy settings, by default preference items are not removed when the hosting GPO becomes out of scope for the user or computer. If the Remove this item when it is no longer applied option is selected, it changes this behavior. After selecting this option, the preference extension determines if the preference item should not apply to targeted users or computers out of scope.
If the preference extension determines the preference item is out of scope, it removes the settings associated with the preference item. Selecting this option changes the action to Replace.
During Group Policy application, the preference extension recreates deletes and creates the results of the preference item. When the preference item is out of scope for the user or computer, the results of the preference item are deleted, but not created. Preference items can become out of scope by using item-level targeting or by higher-level Group Policy filters such as WMI and security group filters.
The Remove this item when it is no longer applied option is not available when the preference item action is set to Delete.
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