Local Security Policy

From: Jeffrey D. Hawley (jhawley_at_arescorporation.com)
Date: 12/19/03

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    Hello,
     
    Recently, on a cluster in my domain that has two nodes that are running 2k3 server, I attempted to look at the local security policies I get the following error:
     
    "The Group Policy settings that apply to this machine could not be determined. The error occurred when trying to retreive these settings from the local security policy database (%windir%\security\database\secedit.sdb) was: The parameter is incorrect.
    All local security settings will be displayed, but no indication will be given as to whether or not a given security setting is defined by Group Policy.
    Any local settings defined through the user interface may subsequently overriden by domain-level policies."
     
    I used esentutl to check the integrity and that is fine, but I get error -1003 when attempting to recovery or repair secedit.sdb.
    Any help on a fix and what may have caused this would be appreciated. Thank you.
     
    Jeff

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