Re: Local Group Policy Error Message

From: Mike Kolitz (mikekol_at_idontlikespam.mvps.org)
Date: 07/17/04 

Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 15:28:46 -0500

John,
I'm not sure if this will help or not, but you could try rebuilding the
local policy database. The instructions are in this article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;%5BLN%5D;278316 

-- 
Mike Kolitz MCSE 2000
MS-MVP - Windows Setup / Deployment
"John Corson" <john@corson.org> wrote in message 
news:E2dKc.1391$ml.702@lakeread05...
> While attempting to open the Local Security Policy module in 
> Administrative
> Tools I received the following message box:
>
> "The Group Policy security settings that apply to this machine could not 
> be
> determined.  The error returned when trying to retrieve 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 settings is defined by Group
> Policy.  Any local security setting modified through this User Interface 
> may
> subsequently be overriden by domain-level policies."
>
> There have been no modifications in security settings through 
> Administrative
> tools modules nor have there been any software/hardware additions recently
> that would cause this to occur.  Any help would be appreciated.
>
> ---John---
>
>

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