SP4 Breaks Group Policies?

From: George Carlson (georgepcarlson_at_YAHOO.COM)
Date: 12/06/03

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    I have been researching this issue for the last 3 months. And while
    Microsoft is deadly silent on the issue, I have found others that are
    experiencing the same problem.

    The Problem is that once the client installs SP4 for W2K, the group
    Policy scripts stop running. I have verified that the scripts do not
    run by putting in statements to create files on the computer. With SP3
    and SP2, the files are created, the drives are mapped, and all is well.
    But with SP4, nothing happens. I have searched the knowledge base and
    the newsgroups and I know we are not alone. But the few articles
    Microsoft has on the subject are - #1, irrelevant, and #2, useless.

    I am wondering how many others out there are also experiencing this
    problem. We have halted the implementation of SP4 at this time due to
    this issue. While it does not take a rocket scientist to manually map a
    drive, most end users find it beyond their ability, and with 10k users,
    we do not have the time or manpower to map everyone ourselves.

    I appreciate any feed back on this issue. As I said, we have tried all
    the KB fixes that microsoft has published, and even contacted our MS
    rep. But nothing is working, including our Reps mouth.

    Thanks
    George Carlson

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