Article ID: 220862 - Last Review: February 24, 2007 - Revision: 3.2

Local Group Policy Settings Do Not Take Effect

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SYMPTOMS

When an administrator or user sets local policy objects to affect local users or computers in the Group Policy snap-in, the settings may not take effect at the next computer startup or user logon.
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CAUSE

This behavior can occur if the local group policy has been disabled. This is enabled by default.
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RESOLUTION

Verify that local group policies are not disabled:
  1. Open the Group Policy snap-in.
  2. Double-click Computer Management.
  3. Right-click Local Computer Policy.
  4. Click to clear the Disable user configuration settings and Disable computer configuration settings check boxes.
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STATUS

This behavior is by design.
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MORE INFORMATION

There is no message informing you that you must enable the settings for them to take effect.
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APPLIES TO
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
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