Microsoft KB Archive/166838

= System Policies No Longer Applied Using Third-Party Client Service =

Article ID: 166838

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

-

APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
 * Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition

-



This article was previously published under Q166838



SYMPTOMS
System Policies on a Windows NT system may not take affect. The policies may not work when first implemented, or subsequent changes to the central policy file may not alter existing policy settings on the client.



CAUSE
There may be many causes to Policies not being read by the client. A few standard things to check include verifying the location of the policy file Ntconfig.pol on the Netlogon share, verifying this policy file being replicated to all domain controllers within the domain, and verifying the Update mode of the client is set properly.

Another cause may be a third-party service or client redirector. To verify this is the cause, remove the third-party client software and try the policies again.

Keywords: kb3rdparty kbenv kbnetwork kbprb KB166838

-

[mailto:TECHNET@MICROSOFT.COM Send feedback to Microsoft]

© Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.