Re: Windoze GPO Question

["Nikhil Wagholikar" <visitnikhil () gmail com>]

Hello Jon Kibler,

I am in total agreement with Steve Armstrong.

Its a good idea to create a separate OU for laptop users (may be a
roaming profile) that have permissions to apply other DHCP settings or
basically change their Network settings.

If your client has remote access (say VPN connectivity to their local
network), then roaming profile is best solution. Let the sales team
login to the domain instead of "This computer".

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Nikhil Wagholikar
Practice Lead | Security Assessment & Digital Forensics
NII Consulting
Web: http://www.niiconsulting.com/
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On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 1:54 AM, Jon Kibler <Jon.Kibler () aset com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> This may be slightly off topic, but I have a question about GPO scope.
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> I have a client that has a bunch of sales people who have laptops. When
> they come into their office, they login to the domain. When they are on
> the road, they login to 'this computer.'
>
> The problem that the client is seeing has left me scratching my head
> about how GP works. What is happening is the client has recently set
> some new group policies that do things like specify which name servers
> and other network resources a given OU is to use. Now, when these
> laptops are taken on the road and the user tries to get Internet access,
> it fails. Why? Because the GPO settings are overriding the DHCP settings
> on 'this computer'.
>
> What I don't understand is why DOMAIN OU GPOs are being applied outside
> the scope of the domain. If you are not logging into the domain, why are
> the domain GPOs in effect? This doesn't make sense. Has my client
> somehow misconfigured AD?
>
> THANKS!
>
> Jon Kibler
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