Simple Vista GP question

snagrat · 6 Dec 2006 at 18:11

Right I have just got Vista Business onto a machine and joined it to our domain. I just want to have a play with group policy and see how it works differently to XP etc.

But........How do I load GPMC on the vista box?

marc2003 · 6 Dec 2006 at 18:43

i think you might need win2003 sp2 (only beta at the moment) for vista group policy support. also the adminpak.msi in the sp2 download can be installed on vista - not sure if gpmc can though?

tonyyeb · 6 Dec 2006 at 19:38

snagrat said:
But........How do I load GPMC on the vista box?

Do you mean you want to run gpmc on the vista box or just practice applying policies to it?

snagrat · 6 Dec 2006 at 19:46

tonyyeb said:
Do you mean you want to run gpmc on the vista box or just practice applying policies to it?

Just practice with policies. But group policies not local ones.

tonyyeb · 6 Dec 2006 at 19:51

You can play with the local policies by loading an mmc. Have you tried putting the computer in an ou with a policy and see what happens?

It may work! In fact i suspect it will work with most policy settings.

snagrat · 6 Dec 2006 at 20:34

It probably will work but I want to play with the new policies that come with vista.

As far as I know you can't load the new vista policies into GPMC. Or am I wrong in saying that? I can't seem to find any adm files anywhere because I think vista uses different formats