14 DAY TRIAL // Customers leveraging Group Policy in their organization and experiencing Active Directory environment issues can turn to a resource provided by Microsoft for potential fixes.
KB2590914 is now live on the Microsoft Support site, an article designed to provide a list of recommended updates, as Microsoft put it, for Group Policy in Windows client and Server products, including Windows 7.
In fact, KB2590914 covers all supported versions of Windows platforms, including Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 in addition to Windows 7.
There are two sets of hotfixes and updates, one for Windows Group Policies and the other for Windows Group Policy Preferences.
Customers will be able to find the two lists provided by the software giant at the bottom of this article. As the Redmond company noted, the fixes and updates on the list are nothing more than recommendations.
In addition, the collection of refreshes and hotfixes put together by Microsoft is not meant to be exhaustive, which means that those customers that did not find a solution for a Group Policy among the links provided by the company should continue to look.
Instead, the software giant has merely worked to provide easy access to solutions for some of the common problems impacting Group Policy or Group Policy Preferences.
IT pros that have yet to encounter any Group Policy-related problems should not proactively deploy any of the updates of hotfixes, Microsoft stressed.
At the same time, the refreshes they do deploy need to be tested extensively in order to assess whether it actually resolves the AD problems IT professionals are trying to deal with.
"Group Policy and Group Policy Management Console Updates:
2261826 - You cannot find a network drive in the "Browse For Folder" dialog box in the GPMC MMC snap-in on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 R2, or Windows 7
927908 - Some security policies are displayed as "Not Defined" in the RSoP snap-in on a Windows Server 2003-based domain controller
981750 - Error message occurs when you use GPMC to view a software restriction Group Policy setting in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2: "An error has occurred while collecting data for Software Restriction Policies"
2258620 - You cannot find the "Find Now," "Stop," and "Clear All" buttons in the GPMC snap-in on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2
976922 - The "Run only allowed Windows applications" Group Policy setting displays no entries on a computer that is running Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, or Windows 7
2409336 (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;2409336) "Unable to cast object of type 'System.String' to type 'Microsoft.Group.Policy.Reporting.Extensions.Registry.RegistryValue'." error message when you try to generate a report for a GPO
Group Policy Preferences Updates:
951430 - A non-administrator user cannot log on to a domain from a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 if you set the locale information for the user by using a Group Policy preference setting
982606 - The value of the "State" registry item is changed after a Group Policy preferences setting is applied in Windows Server 2008, in Windows Vista or in Windows Server 2008 R2
974266 - Group Policy Preferences Client-Side Extension Hotfix Rollup
2385775 - Group Policy Modeling Wizard fails when you have registry updates in the Group Policy preference on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 R2
979731 - Some Group Policy preferences are not applied successfully on computers that are running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2."