Re: Applying Security Policy Takes Forever

From: Ben Blackmore (bjblackmore_at_nospam.hotmail.com)
Date: 06/30/04 

Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 09:51:45 +0100

Its a security template being applied via group policy, I think it was the
securews.inf found in winnt\security\templates.
After enabling logging I've found the following errors in the winlogon.log
file, would they cause the problem?

Warning 2: The system cannot find the file specified.
  Error opening
machine\software\classes\appid\{6295df2d-35ee-11d1-8707-00c04fd93327}.
Warning 2: The system cannot find the file specified.
  Error setting security on
machine\software\classes\appid\{6295df2d-35ee-11d1-8707-00c04fd93327}.
Warning 2: The system cannot find the file specified.
  Error opening
machine\software\classes\clsid\{6295df27-35ee-11d1-8707-00c04fd93327}.
Warning 2: The system cannot find the file specified.
  Error setting security on
machine\software\classes\clsid\{6295df27-35ee-11d1-8707-00c04fd93327}.
 Configure
machine\software\classes\clsid\{6295df2d-35ee-11d1-8707-00c04fd93327}.
Warning 2: The system cannot find the file specified.
  Error opening
machine\software\classes\clsid\{6295df2d-35ee-11d1-8707-00c04fd93327}.
Warning 2: The system cannot find the file specified.
  Error setting security on
machine\software\classes\clsid\{6295df2d-35ee-11d1-8707-00c04fd93327}.
Warning 2: The system cannot find the file specified.
  Error setting security on c:\ntbootdd.sys.
Warning 2: The system cannot find the file specified.
  Error setting security on c:\winnt\help\dcntart.chm.
Warning 2: The system cannot find the file specified.
  Error setting security on c:\winnt\help\javaperm.hlp.
 Configure c:\winnt\help\javasec.hlp.
Warning 2: The system cannot find the file specified.
  Error setting security on c:\winnt\help\javasec.hlp.
Warning 2: The system cannot find the file specified.
  Error setting security on c:\winnt\help\proccon.chm.
Warning 2: The system cannot find the file specified.
  Error setting security on c:\winnt\inf\nt5java.inf.

"Darren Mar-Elia" <dmanonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:es3ZFXgXEHA.2972@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Ben-
> Are you setting file system or registry security in that policy? Those are
> pretty expensive operations that can take a while when they first run.
>
>
>
> --
> Darren Mar-Elia
> MS-MVP-Windows Management
> http://www.gpoguy.com
>
>
>
> "Ben Blackmore" <bjblackmore@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:uX%238m$eXEHA.1048@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a PC that has suddenly developed a problem. For some reason it
now
> > takes 2mins 30seconds to apply the domain security policy, compared to
> last
> > week when it only took about 30 seconds.
> > The machine is a clone of 5 other machies which are all in the same
> office,
> > and are pretty much used just for label printing. The other machines all
> > apply their security policies in under 1 min. The only thing I can think
> > that has changed is the SUS Updates ran yesterday, however I don't think
> > there were any updates installed on this particular machine.
> > The spec is a HP e-pc (small form factor) P766, 128mb ram, 10gb disk,
> > integrated intel 810 video, integrated 3com 905c-tx. The users logon
with
> > different usernames, however they all use the same profile.
> >
> > I have re-installed SP4, and checked the event viewer, which had nothing
> out
> > of the ordinary. I am just about to enable logging for security
> > configuration client processing.
> >
> > Anyone have any suggestions as to what might be causing this?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Ben
> >
> >
>
>

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