How to kill an old group policy?

I work for a company that has ALL of their policies sitting in the Default
Domain policy. Im currently working through cleaning and spliting them up
into individual policies. The one im stuck on right now is the Proxy Settings
policy. I have created a new policy on its own,with all of the settings that
previously lived in the Default domain policy. Problem is, when i remove the
settings from the default domain policy, no one gets the Proxy settings, even
though the policies are being applied at the same level. I do an RSOP, and i
can see the old policy looks like it is still hanging onto the fact it once
had these proxy settings, but now that ive disabled them, it is now remving
the settings, and taking precendence over the new Proxy policy. How do you
completely remove reference from a group policy?Im guessing that because this
is the default domain policy, it is behaving differently. Any help is
appreciated!!

jwd
Wed Jun 18 02:49:00 PDT 2008


What you need to do to clear IE settings from a GPO is right click on
Internet Explorer Maintenance under User Configuration\Windows Settings and
selct Reset Browser Settings. This will completly remove all the IE settings
from the GPO.

Best Regards
Joe Dunn MCSE


"gbug" wrote:

> I work for a company that has ALL of their policies sitting in the Default
> Domain policy. Im currently working through cleaning and spliting them up
> into individual policies. The one im stuck on right now is the Proxy Settings
> policy. I have created a new policy on its own,with all of the settings that
> previously lived in the Default domain policy. Problem is, when i remove the
> settings from the default domain policy, no one gets the Proxy settings, even
> though the policies are being applied at the same level. I do an RSOP, and i
> can see the old policy looks like it is still hanging onto the fact it once
> had these proxy settings, but now that ive disabled them, it is now remving
> the settings, and taking precendence over the new Proxy policy. How do you
> completely remove reference from a group policy?Im guessing that because this
> is the default domain policy, it is behaving differently. Any help is
> appreciated!!

Paul
Wed Jun 18 05:54:15 PDT 2008

If the old settings were tattooing the values into the registry and the new
ones are just set to not defined then nothing will change.

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"gbug" <gbug@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6DB1F7F8-66B3-4B98-8EA6-A76D892FE592@microsoft.com...
>I work for a company that has ALL of their policies sitting in the Default
> Domain policy. Im currently working through cleaning and spliting them up
> into individual policies. The one im stuck on right now is the Proxy
> Settings
> policy. I have created a new policy on its own,with all of the settings
> that
> previously lived in the Default domain policy. Problem is, when i remove
> the
> settings from the default domain policy, no one gets the Proxy settings,
> even
> though the policies are being applied at the same level. I do an RSOP, and
> i
> can see the old policy looks like it is still hanging onto the fact it
> once
> had these proxy settings, but now that ive disabled them, it is now
> remving
> the settings, and taking precendence over the new Proxy policy. How do you
> completely remove reference from a group policy?Im guessing that because
> this
> is the default domain policy, it is behaving differently. Any help is
> appreciated!!

gbug
Wed Jun 18 18:31:00 PDT 2008

Brilliant! This worked.
Many thanks.

"jwd" wrote:

>
> What you need to do to clear IE settings from a GPO is right click on
> Internet Explorer Maintenance under User Configuration\Windows Settings and
> selct Reset Browser Settings. This will completly remove all the IE settings
> from the GPO.
>
> Best Regards
> Joe Dunn MCSE
>
>
> "gbug" wrote:
>
> > I work for a company that has ALL of their policies sitting in the Default
> > Domain policy. Im currently working through cleaning and spliting them up
> > into individual policies. The one im stuck on right now is the Proxy Settings
> > policy. I have created a new policy on its own,with all of the settings that
> > previously lived in the Default domain policy. Problem is, when i remove the
> > settings from the default domain policy, no one gets the Proxy settings, even
> > though the policies are being applied at the same level. I do an RSOP, and i
> > can see the old policy looks like it is still hanging onto the fact it once
> > had these proxy settings, but now that ive disabled them, it is now remving
> > the settings, and taking precendence over the new Proxy policy. How do you
> > completely remove reference from a group policy?Im guessing that because this
> > is the default domain policy, it is behaving differently. Any help is
> > appreciated!!