The Best Damn Windows Server 2003 Book Period- P64:The latest incarnation of Microsoft’s server product,Windows Server 2003, brings many new features and improvements that make the network administrator’s job chapter will briefly summarize what’s new in 2003 and introduce you to the four members of the Windows Server 2003 family: the Web Edition, the Standard Edition, the Enterprise Edition, and the Datacenter Edition. | 596 Chapter 17 Working with Group Policy in an Active Directory Environment A user whose user object is in the IT Managers container will have group policy applied in this order Local Computer policy Default Domain policy Folder Redirection policy IT Manager policy and Manager Tools policy. A user whose user object is in the Accounting container will have group policy applied in this order Local Computer policy Default Domain policy and Folder Redirection policy. Therefore if the user in the Accounting container is supposed to have folders redirected by the Folder Redirection policy but the folders are not being redirected You should look at the Folder Redirection Policy object and see what options or permissions are on the object that would prevent the user from having the policy applied and so on. Using RSoP Just having a policy map will not help you identify the location of policy conflicts in all cases. That s where RSoP comes in. Previously we ve used RSoP to plan our policy environment and test the environment prior to can also use RSoP to discover what policy is applied to a user object and where the policy setting came from. To do this add the RSoP snap-in into the MMC and generate a report based on the user and computer in question as described earlier in the chapter. Let s say that a user is attempting to change his password but he continually gets an error saying that his password is too seem to recall that you had set a policy that allowed six character passwords as a minimum but the user continually gets a message that his password must be at least seven run an RSoP report on the user and get the result shown in Figure . Remembering that password settings are a part of computer configuration you open to that portion of the report and find the minimum password length policy. Sure enough it s set to seven characters. However in the window you also see that the minimum password length setting came from the
