Applying Group Policies to Entire Domain

jpapier · Post by **jpapier** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 2:57 pm

Greetings,

Is there a way to use gpedit once, then have its settings be applied to an entire domain of PCs running Windows XP? Our server software is OLD, Win NT 4.0. Do we need to be running Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2000 to have a group policy be applied to the entire domain?

We're tired of having to use gpedit on each PC individually!

Thanks,

JP

Post by **Scott** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 7:40 am

The easiest way to deploy Group Policies would be via an Active Directory. Of course if you have an NT 4.0 domain, upgrading your Domain Controller would be a chore in itself.

In your case you may want to check out the SECEDIT tool. SECEDIT is a command line tool used to deploy security templates.

Here are some useful links.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/docu ... pnode.mspx

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/docu ... _cmds.mspx

http://techsupt.winbatch.com/TS/T000001036004F29.html

--Scott

jpapier · Post by **jpapier** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 10:03 am

Thanks again, you've been really helpful....upgrading our server software is prohibitively expensive for us right now, so I'll check out the links. JP