System Policies No Longer Applied Using Third-Party Client Service

• Microsoft Windows NT Workstation version 4.0
• Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0

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 ntdomain ntnetserv NTSrvWkst 
Version           : WinNT:4.0
Platform          : winnt 
Issue type        : kbprb 

Last Reviewed: February 13, 1999