Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Directory Services. Sign in to vote. Hello, We have a recurring, intermittent problem in which users computers are not getting applied from Gpos in Windows XP machines to our Windows server. They can define the settings and the allowed actions for users and computers across sites, domains and OUs through group policies.
A default group policy already exists. You only need to modify the values of different policy settings according to your specific requirements. You can create new group policies to meet your specific business requirements. Group policies allow you to implement:. Registry based settings: Allows you to create a policy to administer operating system components and applications.
Security settings: Allows you to set security options for users and computers to restrict them to run files based on path, hash, publisher criteria or URL zone. Software restrictions: Allows you to create a policy that would restrict users running unwanted applications and protect computers against virus and hacking attacks. Software distribution and installation: Allows you to either assign or publish software application to domain users centrally with the help of a group policy.
Roaming user profiles: Allows mobile users to see a familiar and consistent desktop environment on all the computers of the domain by storing their profile centrally on a server. Internet Explorer maintenance: Allows administrators to manage the IE settings of the users' computers in a domain by setting the security zones, privacy settings and other parameters centrally with the help of group policy.
Local Group Policies affect only the users who log in to the local machine but domain-based policies affect all the users of the domain. If you are creating domain-based policies then you can create policy at three levels: sites , domains and OUs. Besides, you have to make sure that each computer must belong to only one domain and only one site. When a GPO is defined it is inherited by all the objects under it and is applied in a cumulative fashion successively starting from local computer to site, domain and each nested OU.
For example if a GPO is created at domain level then it will affect all the domain members and all the OUs beneath it. After applying all the policies in hierarchy, the end result of the policy that takes effect on a user or a computer is called the Resultant Set of Policy RSoP. Active 4 years, 10 months ago. Viewed 66k times. I have researched this topic through the web but can't find a definitive answer. Given our region we run all our in-house built apps under en-ZA.
The comma in the monetary values causes an issue in another importer app down the line. If I can understand this then maybe this can be corrected via group policy.
Improve this question. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Ross Jones Ross Jones 4 4 bronze badges. What you're looking for is the "regional settings". Before you continue with the various sections below, I would like to remind you of the fact that the tabs Formats and Location contain user-specific settings and that settings on the tab Administrative are system-specific.
These system-specific settings concern the international settings for the welcome screen and system accounts as well as the local system's code page for programs that do not support Unicode. For detailed information how to configure the code page please see the article Configuring the time zone and code page with Group Policy on this website.
One last thing. All configurations described in this article are stored in the Windows registry. If you are unsure of the exact value of a setting, for example concerning country codes, I recommend you to first configure the setting using the graphical interface. You than go to the registry and read the configured value, which you can than use in your script or Group Policy setting.
In case you are not in the mood for any blabla , I have listed all relevant registry keys and values in this section. If you know your way around Group Policy Preferences, you do not need to read further.
Here it goes. This section deals with the settings configured on the first tab, Formats , of the Regional Settings Control Panel item. Ever since the introduction of Group Policy Preferences with Item-Level Targeting first introduced with Windows Server , managing regional settings has been a breeze.
With a right-mouse click on Regional Options select New. I recommend to execute this policy in the user's security context tick the Run in logged-on [ One way to distinguish users is to filter based on Active Directory security group membership, for example:.
The regional settings consist of multiple values. You find all settings in the following registry key:. It may happen that after configuring the regional settings for a user, the time in the system tray is not shown in the correct format.
You can correct the time format on the Time tab in the Regional Settings Group Policy Preference see also the previous paragraph or directly in the registry using either a script or a Group Policy Preference.
Please take a look at the screenshot below. In the example below, the time is not displayed as it should be. The exact registry key and value are:. A capital H sets the clock to a hour format; a small h sets the clock to a hour format. A double hh or HH adds a leading zero when the hour is one digit only. Also, note the space between the clock settings and the tt value.
The drop down menu in the Regional Settings does not allow you configure this, but you can configure this on the Time tab of the Regional Settings Group Policy Preference and by directly configuring the registry using a Group Policy Preference registry item for example.
Now we have all the information we need to set the correct time configuration for all users. There are two easy ways how to accomplish this:. Please read the section Configuring regional settings using Group Policy in this article to understand how to configure the user's regional settings.
After you have configured at least one regional setting configuration, modify this configuration and go to the Time tab. On this tab you can modify the time format to anything you want. Before you can modify anything, first make sure to press the F5 button to turn all the red lines to green lines. Green lines indicate that anything you change will be saved after clicking the Apply or OK button. At the bottom of the tab a detailed description of the various configuration options is provided.
Configure the registry item as follows:. In case you require multiple locations for a variety of scenarios within the same Group Policy, use an Item-Level Targeting filter.
This is explained in the section Configuring regional settings using Group Policy. The registry item is now created and will be deployed to all users to whom the particular Group Policy applies. This section deals with the Home Location setting configured on the second tab, Location , of the Regional Settings Control Panel item.
Instead, a Group Policy Preference registry item needs to be used. To determine the country ID, change the location manually on the second tab of the Control Panel item Regional Settings and than check the aforementioned registry value.
For example, when I select Austria as my location, the value Nation is set to Before it was , which is the country ID for the United States. Now we have all the information we need to set the correct location for all users. The easiest way to accomplish this is by using a Group Policy Preference. Probably an alphabetical list of some sort….
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