Workstation Security Policies & RSoP

We are having issues being able to install a print driver on several
workstations unless an admin had it installed first.

So, to diagnose, I thought I would checkout the security polices on those
affected computers to see if anything goofy was going on. Well there
is.....


When I perform an RSoP on any workstation, under Computer Config\Windows
Security\Security Settings the only sub items that are retrieved are:
Wireless Network, Public Key Policies, and Software Restrictions.
Account Policies, Local Policies, Event log, etc are all missing.

So I went to visit one of these workstations and performed a gpupdate
/force. Did not seem to resolve anything.

I then check some computers that haven't reported any printer issues, and
perform and analyzed the local security policies. To my surprise I found
those computer behind on security configurations. My practice is to create
a security policy on a workstation, and once satisfied, import it into an AD
GPO. I thought that was all that needed done to enforce security policies
to any AD workstations.

So I have 2 issues here, which may be related:
1) Something is going on in local security policies, as I am not able to
retrieve the current settings via RSoP
2) My most recently security policies are not necessarily being deployed
to all the workstations through Group Policy


I'm stumped enough right now that I don't even now what questions to ask to
move this forward. If anyone has any thoughts or questions to help clarify
this, please pass them on.

Thanks all for your help in advance....


Matt Miller
MCSE





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